J. D. Salinger Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
-
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
-
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
-
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
-
I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
-
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
-
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
-
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
-
We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
-
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
-
The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
-
I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
-
Beauty is not just physical.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
-
I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
-
It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
-
I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
-
I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
-
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
-
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
-
Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.
-
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
