Quote

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

John Steinbeck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
Steinbeck
Whether
Falls
Fall
Glad
Truth
Telling
Travel
Saws
Asked
Seen
Nice
Niagara

More quotes by John Steinbeck

Image
Saints can spring from any soil.
John Steinbeck
Image
... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
John Steinbeck
Image
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
John Steinbeck
Image
To the heavens on the wings of a pig.
John Steinbeck
Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.
John Steinbeck
Image
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.
John Steinbeck
Image
Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck
Image
It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.
John Steinbeck
Image
I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.
John Steinbeck
Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
John Steinbeck
Image
Thou mayest rule over sin.
John Steinbeck
Image
A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.
John Steinbeck
Image
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
Image
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
John Steinbeck
Image
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
John Steinbeck
Image
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
John Steinbeck
Image
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
John Steinbeck
Image
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
John Steinbeck
Image
An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
John Steinbeck
Image
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
John Steinbeck