John Steinbeck Quotes

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Opening sentence.

John Steinbeck

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• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Job
  • Books
  • Library

• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God
  • Society

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Baseball
  • Show
  • Dice

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Musicians

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but part of me just doesn't know how much I believe in that, as much as I want to.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Believe

• Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Pantomime

• Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Single
  • Quality
  • Doe

• Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Opening sentence.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Dream
  • Light
  • Quality