John Steinbeck Quotes

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

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• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Food

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • House
  • Opinion

• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Mean
  • Achievement
  • Canada

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Way
  • You
  • Will

• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  

  Beck
  • Fall
  • Quality
  • Doing

• Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Way
  • Ball
  • Runner

• My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Very
  • Tomboy

• Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Money
  • Help
  • Attention

• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Political
  • Philosophical
  • Anti-Semitism

• I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.

  

  Bill Pullman

• We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • Time

• The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

  

  John Steinbeck
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