J. D. Salinger Quotes

I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

J. D. Salinger

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• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I want to marry after traveling alone, meeting many people, and experiencing a variety of things, and when I'm certain I can be responsible of myself.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Police

• I'm kind of fascinated by Paula Deen. I've been to her restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in Savannah. My friend was studying in the area, and we ate at her restaurant, and it was right at the cusp where Paula Deen became Paula Deen.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Friend
  • Restaurant
  • Studying

• Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Technology

• California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • California

• Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Understanding
  • Preparation
  • Journalism

• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Vote
  • Cultural

• I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Hip Hop

• The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Live
  • Nature
  • City

• If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Achievement

• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Different
  • Vision
  • Eye

• Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

  

  Ian Hacking

• Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

  

  Madeleine Albright

• We human beings are what we have been for millions of years - colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Peace

• You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Sorry
  • Jail
  • Stole

• My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

  

  John Oliver
  • People
  • Help
  • Journey

• ’Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. 'Mr Wooster, miss' he said 'is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Words

• Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Turn

• I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

  

  J. D. Salinger