in Quotes & Aphorisms (Sport)
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.
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Citations by John Steinbeck
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it just works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit, for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation.
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.
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Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.
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I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
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They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.
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