John Steinbeck Quotes

He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.

John Steinbeck

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Mind
  • Alone

• For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Job
  • Celebrity
  • Fame

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Down
  • Cat
  • Clever

• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Science
  • Humanities

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Moment

• Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Good
  • Long
  • Peace

• I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.

  

  Malcolm David Kelley
  • Up
  • Fan
  • Lakers

• Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Political

• It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Day
  • Blue
  • Bicycle

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Business
  • New

• Don't kill the golden goose.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Golden
  • Goose

• Sometimes, I'm just a fan of the guy, and we'll switch jerseys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • Fan

• I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• I was always pretty good at designing things.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Always

• As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • Habits
  • Men's

• I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

  

  Og Mandino
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Failure

• I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • Songs
  • Discovered
  • Fantasies

• Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Dreams

• He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.

  

  John Steinbeck