Top 17 Quotes About Steinbeck Travel
#1. I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.
John Steinbeck
#2. There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
John Steinbeck
#4. 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
#5. Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans
John Steinbeck
#6. Having been a demon curse, however brief, should leave a mark. A streak of silver hair, or bewitching eyes. Maybe crows on one's roof or a hound from hell at your heel. Blowing out my breath I stood and squinted at my reflection. A black eye. Swell.
Kim Harrison
#8. My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.
Joan Rivers
#9. And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.
John Steinbeck
#10. You're only young once. That is all society can stand.
Jane Seabrook
#11. But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it's true.
Andy Weir
#13. Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.
John Steinbeck
#14. You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.
John Steinbeck
#15. When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
John Steinbeck
#16. Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
John Steinbeck
#17. I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.
John Steinbeck
