Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ...
GARY F EVANS... Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.
JOHN STEINBECK We're talking about the difference between a little below and a little above, but the number is cons...
GERALD COHEN I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI She knew too much. -A
SARA SHEPARD May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have l...
REGINA SPEKTOR If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.
HANYA YANAGIHARA The previous Friday, Andy had come over, and they'd told him, and Andy had stood and hugged them bot...
HANYA YANAGIHARA He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
HANYA YANAGIHARA The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and...
NEWT GINGRICH Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH We're a little bit above normal (for precipitation). We are about 4 inches above normal here and lat...
JULIE HOLCOMBE I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.
STAN FREBERG Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark ...
KENNETH GRAHAME Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but i...
JOYCE MEYER This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT But they're your parents," Malcolm said to him once a year or so. "You can't just stop talkin...
HANYA YANAGIHARA Now for my pains, promise me-“
And she hesitated.
“What?” asked Marius.
“Prom...
VICTOR HUGO I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them brea...
JAMES FREY That has changed. Now, I'm telling my sellers to price their home right where the market is, not abo...
DOLLY RIEGERT WOODRUFF I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little b...
COLIN KAEPERNICK When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great ...
WASHINGTON IRVING Little angels above delivering magic and dreams
DEBBIE NICHOLSON Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING They're above the tracks and we're below the tracks.
AL GREEN I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother ...
VINCENT KARTHEISER Bless your little heart. But that's because I'm a hack. A lot of those people are trained and that's...
BIF NAKED How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
DAR WILLIAMS Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened th...
HANYA YANAGIHARA He has just come home, so exhausted that he feels soluble, as if he is evaporating into the air, so ...
HANYA YANAGIHARA He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-ed...
HANYA YANAGIHARA He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult...
HANYA YANAGIHARA This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's no...
HANYA YANAGIHARA What do you care?" I barked, and his grip tightened enough on my wrists that I knew my bones would s...
SARAH J. MAAS He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comf...
HANYA YANAGIHARA But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedant...
HANYA YANAGIHARA Rather than be eaten away from below, Cisco gets to protect its business a little longer.
CHARLES GOLVIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI We give what we are above,but we hoard what we are below.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
JOHN UPDIKE Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos n...
JOHN GREEN Te pasas toda la vida atorado en el laberinto, pensando en cómo vas a escapar de ahí un día y que...
JOHN GREEN Cuando los adultos dicen: “Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles”, con esa sonrisa maños...
JOHN GREEN 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 Michigan was a touch below consensus. The dollar may pull back a little, especially against interest...
DANIEL KATZIVE It's at the high end of Street expectations, maybe even a little above.
PARAS BHARGAVA We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quota...
RACHAEL RAY She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alp...
EVA IBBOTSON Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKY Low this morning was 10, but it felt a lot colder than that. Wind chills were a little below zero.
ALAN DUNHAM I would try to get funds below the mean (but) ... I'll pay a little more to get a superior fund.
TOM GRZYMALA In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
ASA GRAY Same old John. Reliable. A leader. A little better than you might think he is. A little more skill t...
LARRY COYER It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to ...
JULIAN BARNES The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.
RICHIE NORTON He placed his hand on Willem's arm. 'Willem, don't cry.'
'I'm not going to,' he said. 'I ...
HANYA YANAGIHARA The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...
MITCH ALBOM Green calm below, blue quietness above.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I'm right below above average intelligence.
KRIS HUEN I'm right above below average intelligence.
KRIS HUEN Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
TAYLOR HANSON Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.
PROVERB Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit mo...
A. LOU VICKERY Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.
JULIA A. FLETCHER CARNEY There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little group...
JIM RASH All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weavin...
STACEY D'ERASMO A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President h...
JOHN STEINBECK "Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long,"
'Tis not with me exactly so;
...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS That was a good little double move. You can tell he's been trained in our game. Looks like he has go...
RICHARD DAVIS Jeanette's got that killer instinct. John is a little more laid-back. But they're both great players...
HANK DESLAURIER There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)
D.J. MACHALE A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a
little wife well will'd, are great ric...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Ric...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE Creo que somos más grandes que la suma de nuestras partes.
JOHN GREEN Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just m...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write,...
STEPHEN KING You have an entirely different industry with oil below $50 a barrel and with oil above $60.
VAUGHN CORDLE He was a little bit sore on Monday and Tuesday, as expected, but he's trained well with the squad an...
ROB ANDREW Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But...
SIRI HUSTVEDT When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Doubt is not below knowledge but above it
ALAIN LESAGE Doubt is not below knowledge but above 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 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 Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your inter...
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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.
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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 Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventual...
JOHN STEINBECK It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the com...
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JOHN STEINBECK A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.
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JOHN STEINBECK And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
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JOHN STEINBECK One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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JOHN STEINBECK Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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An all plans, safeguards, policies and coerc...
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JOHN STEINBECK He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
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JOHN STEINBECK All of them had a restlessness in common.
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Because he loved true t...
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'I d...
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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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