Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Regarding "thou mayest": And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now the group was welded to one thing, one unit, so that in the dark the eyes of the people were… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Hazel used his trick. "They got no starfish there?" "They got no ocean there" said Doc. "Oh!" said Hazel and he cast… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ, one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun'! You win, Ma. Put away that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man....For man, unlike… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
