J. D. Salinger Quotes

How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'

J. D. Salinger

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• I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Obama
  • Misgivings

• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Cards
  • Cash
  • Boots

• I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Create

• Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Man
  • Interesting
  • Politics

• Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • You
  • Story
  • See

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Need
  • Criminal
  • Hunt

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • Art
  • Soul

• If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Anything

• I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Think
  • Personality

• We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • End

• I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

  

  E. L. James
  • Writing
  • House
  • Looking Forward

• In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Power
  • Control
  • Christian

• If you try to make money doing something you're not enjoying, it's a hard way to make money.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Try

• She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.

  

  Iain Banks
  • She
  • Death
  • Stupid

• Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child’s is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Dark
  • Star

• There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Universe
  • Happens
  • Going

• The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It is better not to attempt giving an exact account at this point, but to restrict discussion to the shifting of relationships in general. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Why
  • Giving

• I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Difference
  • Careers
  • Profession

• I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.

  

  Barun Sobti

• My doctor said, 'If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you'll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.' Well, I'm gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • High School
  • Doctor
  • Diabetes

• How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'

  

  J. D. Salinger