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Come Quotes by John Steinbeck
- If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have…
- Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.
- Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we…
- I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each…
- I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of…
- The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come…
- I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are…
- 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…
- I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
- The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
- You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.
- The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the…
- I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the…
- Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a…
- ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
- Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna…
- George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,…
More Come Quotes
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard