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Many Quotes by John Steinbeck
- I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
- I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two…
- 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…
- The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the…
- I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood…
- A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In…
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.
- Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
- One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
- So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them…
- Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and…
- I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
- A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
- Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
- As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper…
- There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature…
- A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in…
- I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
- 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,…
- I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of…
- My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her…
More Many Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — 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
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson