John Steinbeck Quotes

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

John Steinbeck

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• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Attention

• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Limit
  • Limited

• To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Want

• Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Change

• Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Awkward

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Rest

• What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Words
  • Trees
  • Plants

• I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Long
  • Marriage

• I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Thought
  • Cutting
  • Room

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Life
  • True
  • Damn

• I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Day
  • Morning

• If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Career
  • Cool

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Idea

• I like to play by my own rules.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Play
  • Like
  • Rules

• Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Courage
  • My Life

• Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Write

• I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Records
  • Musician
  • Breathed

• The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

  

  John Steinbeck