Quotes by

John Steinbeck

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. – John Steinbeck

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these theres time, the Bastard Time. – John Steinbeck

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. – John Steinbeck

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. – John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. – John Steinbeck

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. – John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck

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 artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

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 so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

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 hidden in the grass. – John Steinbeck

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. – John Steinbeck

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. – John Steinbeck

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. – John Steinbeck

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. – John Steinbeck

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. – John Steinbeck

A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. – John Steinbeck

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. – John Steinbeck