1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.

Her dark eyes made little reflected stars. She was looking at him as she was always looking.

And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right – the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning.

Lord, how the day passes! It’s like a life – so quickly when we don’t watch it and so slowly when we do.

We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.

A wife is like a children’s movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.