He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
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A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.
JOHN STEINBECK Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
BRENDA JONES Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Bu...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without lookin...
JOHN STEINBECK Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat...
RONALD WRIGHT I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine wh...
EDWARD NORTON How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President h...
JOHN STEINBECK Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
FABRIZIO MOREIRA Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it...
RICHARD SEYMOUR When Bill Bennett, the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus and theologian Michael Novak go to the synagogue, i...
SUZANNE FIELDS Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat...
JOHN STEINBECK Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD Hes doing better than what we thought.
JAMIE KING I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbec...
LOU HOLTZ The reason his name is popping up is he's probably the closest thing out there to John Roberts. And ...
BRADFORD BERENSON The reason his name is popping up is he's probably the closest thing out there to John Roberts. And ...
BRADFORD A. BERENSON My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
BRECKIN MEYER God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
JOHN STEINBECK I was mean life a wolf. Now i'm mean like a weasel. When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an'...
JOHN STEINBECK It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the...
JOHN STEINBECK Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John ...
DON SCARDINO Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var...
ALEX ADAMS Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, Jo...
CHARLES DICKENS You want to bet. I want to know who John Doe is, and Richard Roe, or we're leaving. Take your choice...
HUGH KEEFE Can I help you?" said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and go...
NEIL GAIMAN Do you remember what Richard III said about wearing the crown?
MARIA SHARAPOVA To say how close John and dad were, I'd call him after meets - all the way up till the end. We discu...
BRIAN GRAY And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to histo...
JOHN STEINBECK I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, an...
BLAKE BAILEY John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixo...
SUSAN ESTRICH [DE John Abraham played 34 snaps Sunday, but said yesterday that he is not yet 100%.] I've got a lit...
JOHN ABRAHAM Getting Richard on board would be a real bonus for us and hopefully we can tie something up in the n...
DAVID PLUMMER My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular th...
THOMAS STEINBECK Got it!" Mike announced. The GE record player slowly whirred to life, creaky as an old carousel.
ERIC SPITZNAGEL We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americ...
JOHN STEINBECK John is going to show up. I can remember when John couldn't spell sprinter — so yes, we're not tak...
BUBBA THORNTON John is going to show up. I can remember when John couldn't spell sprinter so yes, we're not taki...
BUBBA THORNTON I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I...
NICK MORAN Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The ...
RUPERT HUGHES When I was 6 years old we were called up into his office and John Wayne was sitting there. He deputi...
CHERI BROWN But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a ...
JOHN STEINBECK Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.
JOHN STEINBECK You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
DAVID MITCHELL My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere...
NATHAN ELMO MELO Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
PETER GOULD Richard said, 'I'm not choking him, it just looks like I am choking him.
DAVID ROBERTSON I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I t...
CLIVE CUSSLER If one got too concerned with motivation, his eyes would kind of roll. He and John have collaborated...
DANNY HUSTON I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
THALIA CHALTAS With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before ...
NOEL GALLAGHER [In 1964, Jesse Jackson turned down a summer toll-collecting job offer from Mayor Richard J. Daley t...
JESSE JACKSON When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergat...
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.
PHIL BREDESEN It's like a blueberry White Russian,' John said, now on his third spoonful.
'It tastes exactly ...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL Richard called one day and said, 'You know, I want to pitch this movie to you,'
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and...
BEN HOROWITZ Build a house?" exclaimed John.
"For the Wendy," said Curly.
"For Wendy?" John...
J.M. BARRIE John Kerry said today that he wants to get rid of tax cuts for the rich and his wife said, 'Hey, shu...
JAY LENO So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple ide...
YOKO ONO Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Ri...
NEIL GAIMAN With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before ...
NOEL GALLAGHER The intensity was good and we knew our assignments today. Sometimes, we're still a little inconsiste...
ANTOINE CALDWELL If you always do, what you've always done,
You'll always get, what you've always got!
JOHN BANKSON Jesus said unto them: Come and dine. John 21:12.
TRENT LOTT I said, 'John, is everything OK with my paperwork?' He said, 'Larry, you're on the ballot.'
LARRY LONG John is going to show up. I can remember when John couldn't spell sprinter â€â...
BUBBA THORNTON It seems kind of selfish now, when I think about why I started this event. Ten years ago my son, Jac...
DONNA HARPER The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of br...
DAVID PIETRUSZA We'll see how things set up. There are things we're looking at. Certainly we want to give Bart as ma...
MIKE SCIOSCIA Richard will have scans in the morning but it's got all the symptoms of another reconstruction.
LEIGH MATTHEWS I walked in there and he told me, he said, 'You got something wrong with you besides a cold.' He sai...
HENRY HALL We bought a ticket and got up in the stands. We got there fairly early and were sitting for what see...
DICK TRICKLE I'm actually following the advice that Tom Dewey (who lost the 1948 presidential election to Harry T...
BILL BRADLEY Mostly we don't get destroyed," John said. "Mostly we destroy ourselves.
JOSEPH FINK Is there anybody here who can negotiate a movie deal? ... This kid walked up to me and said, 'I can ...
LARRY COHEN I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to...
CHRIS CLARK She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said.
"Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."
A...
NEIL GAIMAN Obviously, they've got Jason Kidd, who opens up the court so much, Vince Carter on one wing and Rich...
JERMAINE O'NEAL There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you c...
HELEN MIRREN As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still le...
GEORGE CARLIN Coach told Larry to 'bring him up.' So I came up and, basically, the first day, he said go ahead and...
DANTE KERNEY Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...
JOHN STEINBECK For what I lacked, (Richard Hendrix) was there. He was a good teammate for that.
JERMAREO DAVIDSON It's been something that we've anticipated since the summer time, when we heard Richard got the job.
JASON GRUBB Anita can speak for herself," Richard said.
Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That i...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Are we to deny our daughters the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck or Shakespear...
DIANE DAVIES Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!"
"The what?"...
DOUGLAS ADAMS John Lennon was everything his friends wanted to be, and said everything they wanted to say but woul...
MARK LEWISOHN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve...
JAMES HETFIELD She's certainly much more sexy than John Spencer is. She's got a better story.
HANK SHEINKOPF John had confidence. He might have, he really might have said it.
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JOHN STEINBECK Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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JOHN STEINBECK Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man we...
JOHN STEINBECK Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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JOHN STEINBECK I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't h...
JOHN STEINBECK As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sou...
JOHN STEINBECK They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his he...
JOHN STEINBECK I see hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches with their bindles on their back an�...
JOHN STEINBECK Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the f...
JOHN STEINBECK Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hi...
JOHN STEINBECK A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swa...
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JOHN STEINBECK At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side win...
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JOHN STEINBECK I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
JOHN STEINBECK Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.
JOHN STEINBECK Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now."
"Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.
JOHN STEINBECK George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many tim...
JOHN STEINBECK In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you un...
JOHN STEINBECK Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in t...
JOHN STEINBECK I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.
JOHN STEINBECK We could live offa the fatta the lan'.
JOHN STEINBECK We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
JOHN STEINBECK Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobod...
JOHN STEINBECK Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.
JOHN STEINBECK His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but ...
JOHN STEINBECK Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around...
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JOHN STEINBECK The film of evening light made the red earth lucent, so that its dimensions were deepened, so that a...
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JOHN STEINBECK Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
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JOHN STEINBECK It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the com...
JOHN STEINBECK I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced tha...
JOHN STEINBECK We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient met...
JOHN STEINBECK A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.
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JOHN STEINBECK For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be bet...
JOHN STEINBECK Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
JOHN STEINBECK Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.
'I d...
JOHN STEINBECK I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.
JOHN STEINBECK To the stars, on the wings of a pig.
JOHN STEINBECK The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and ou...
JOHN STEINBECK The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, dow...
JOHN STEINBECK ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides whit...
JOHN STEINBECK He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give ...
JOHN STEINBECK No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
JOHN STEINBECK In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and ...
JOHN STEINBECK Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
JOHN STEINBECK You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let your...
JOHN STEINBECK Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls...
JOHN STEINBECK To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about ...
JOHN STEINBECK Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't l...
JOHN STEINBECK I was mean life a wolf. Now i'm mean like a weasel. When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an'...
JOHN STEINBECK When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when...
JOHN STEINBECK But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that...
JOHN STEINBECK Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are ...
JOHN STEINBECK And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing...
JOHN STEINBECK Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and ...
JOHN STEINBECK Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mi...
JOHN STEINBECK No one who is young is ever going to be old.
JOHN STEINBECK ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, an...
JOHN STEINBECK It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
JOHN STEINBECK A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else...
JOHN STEINBECK But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thin...
JOHN STEINBECK A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
JOHN STEINBECK People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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