Pearl John Steinbeck Quotes

#1. It's almost as if we're afraid of words. They hang in the air, unspoken, and then seeing that they're not going to be used, they shrivel and die.

Crystal

#2. It's never too early to start marketing your book.

Heather Hart

#3. It is the hour of pearl - the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

John Steinbeck

#4. Everything seems futile here except the sun, our kisses, and the wild scents of the earth. ... Here, I leave order and moderation to others. The great free love of nature and the sea absorbs me completely.

Albert Camus

#5. She had not prayed directly for the recovery of the baby - she had prayed that they might find a pearl with which to hire the doctor to cure the baby, for the minds of people are as unsubstantial as the mirage of the Gulf.

John Steinbeck

#6. In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.

Rajneesh

#7. A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words,

Susan Sontag

#8. You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you

John Steinbeck

#9. The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

William H. Macy

#10. False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

Walter Raleigh

#11. People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#12. The True End of not only therapy but Maturity is to learn to live with the inescapable fact that 97% of all human beings are getting fucked and 97% of all faggots are, too.

Larry Kramer

#13. The biblical math could not be simpler; if a person who professes to be a Christian lives like the devil, he is of the devil.

Todd Friel

#14. But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be ...

John Steinbeck

#15. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate.

E. M. Forster

#16. I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

Alan Palomo

#17. GMOs could really land us in trouble

Colin Tudge