All John Steinbeck Quotes
- I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great… Any
- It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of… Acquisitiveness
- It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. Adversity
- A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. Germ
- A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. Adventure
- If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. Aids
- A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years… Alike
- Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. Ceased
- I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. Amazed
- Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. Bad Ass
- No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. Beings
- In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. Filling
- Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. Atheism
- Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. Bait
- Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. Critic
- Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers… Change
- I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. Cameras
- I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. Bores
- I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. Apologetic
- One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. Fall
- The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even… Believe
- Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. Bastard
- We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. Change
- It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try… Action
- No one wants advice - only corroboration. Advice