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Thing Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite…
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the…
- The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
- Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
- When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California…
- A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was…
- If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
- There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have…
- Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.
- A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they…
- I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
- ... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
- There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
- It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
- 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…
- [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked…
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
- But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is…
- What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps…
- Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
- The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
More Thing Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong