Quotes About Steinbeck The Sea

#1. Vince didn't seem impressed, more like bored. He uncrossed then re-crossed his legs so tightly, he either had to take a piss, or he'd been cursed with balls the size of grapes and a dick like a gherkin. It just wasn't normal for a guy to do that.

J.C. Isabella

#2. It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

Cecil Castellucci

#3. Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

John Steinbeck

#4. You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?

John Steinbeck

#5. I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Al Yankovic

#6. Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

Guillermo Del Toro

#7. They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect."
I had to ask. "You practice running away?"
"We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. If you want something as good as money,

Mr. Bee gave him the freshiest honey.

Silvia Marsz

#9. Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.

David Rock

#10. She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.

Jamaica Kincaid

#11. The images we impress upon our mind, especially when accompanied by emotion, yield the same experience whether they are true or fictional.

Alan Cohen

#12. Everyone - whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender - should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

Cyndi Lauper

#13. The sea lions felt it and their barking took on a tone and a cadence that would have gladdened the heart of St. Francis. Little girls

John Steinbeck

#14. The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature.

John Steinbeck

#15. Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

John Steinbeck

#16. Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

John Steinbeck

#17. Can a hermaphrodite be a cross-dresser?

Harlowe Pilgrim