John Steinbeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski -
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel -
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Taiye Selasi -
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
Irrfan Khan -
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie
-
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
Kate Klise -
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
B. F. Skinner -
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
Abel Ferrara -
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Vernon Howard -
New York City has an integration problem.
Laura Moser -
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
Hamish Linklater
-
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
M. J. Rose -
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
Adam McKay -
I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
Vin Diesel -
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Ralph Peters -
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
Tariq Ali -
The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
Randy Pausch
-
Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
Gary Herbert -
I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Doug Harvey -
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
John Heywood -
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
Patrick deWitt -
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner -
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
John Steinbeck