John Steinbeck Quotes

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Too
  • Catty

• My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Young

• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Day
  • Cancer

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Past

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Always

• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cold
  • Mood
  • Comfortable

• Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Business
  • Day

• The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Summer
  • First
  • Africa

• World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Good
  • Story
  • Director

• I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Good
  • She
  • Girl

• Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Career

• Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • People
  • Golf

• A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

  

  Joel Osteen

• I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  

  John Steinbeck
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  • Cold
  • Summer