J. D. Salinger Quotes

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

J. D. Salinger

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Say
  • Often

• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.

  

  Kai Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Law

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Way
  • Education
  • Justice

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Public
  • Go
  • Thinks

• Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • America
  • Morning

• I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Theatre

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Up
  • Good
  • Cool

• I can't do anything in moderation.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Anything
  • Moderation

• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Proud
  • Take
  • Lessons

• I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Science
  • Study
  • Language

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Me
  • Angry
  • Gun

• Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Always
  • Old

• Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Dance
  • Interests

• Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Always
  • Emotions
  • Weather