John Steinbeck Quotes

'Well, that glove's fulla vaseline.''Vaseline? What the hell for?'Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.'

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• The patient decides when it's best to go.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Patient
  • Medical

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • English
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Up
  • She
  • You

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Playing
  • Because
  • Tennessee

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

  

  Charles Landry
  • Interesting
  • Needs
  • Creativity

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • War
  • Hand

• I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• 'Well, that glove's fulla vaseline.''Vaseline? What the hell for?'Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.'

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Hand
  • Wife