Thomas Steinbeck Quotes

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether.

Thomas Steinbeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1944 - August 11, 2016

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To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.

John Carmack

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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylor

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The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.

Andy Dunn

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Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

Michael Bolton

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.

Alvaro Enrigue

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Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

Stephan Jenkins

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When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.

Rob Portman

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Wrestling moves are made for arenas, not the screen.

Roddy Piper

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After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

Jason Calacanis

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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.

Dean Devlin

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