John Steinbeck Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

“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.”

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”

“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.”

“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 there's time, the Bastard Time.”

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”

“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”

“Time is the only critic without ambition.”