J. D. Salinger Quotes

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J. D. Salinger

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• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Black

• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Times
  • Drive
  • Sophisticated

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Reality
  • Jazz
  • Prism

• I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Directing

• I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Single
  • Weekend
  • Skills

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Home
  • Looking

• I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Characters

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Privacy
  • Behind

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Success

• If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Books
  • Thing
  • Bookstore

• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Always
  • Human

• A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Heart
  • Faith
  • Beginning

• I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

  

  Gene Tunney
  • Planning

• We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

  

  Mike Quade
  • Giving
  • Quality

• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Courage
  • Sick
  • Nobody