J. D. Salinger Quotes

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

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• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
  • Language

• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Men
  • Love
  • Young

• I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Dark
  • Matter

• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Security

• The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Freedom
  • Struggle
  • Product

• The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Favourite

• It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Business
  • Political

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • May
  • Sun
  • Author

• Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

  

  Leila Janah
  • Poverty

• The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many jihadists have escaped.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • High
  • Death

• People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• I came back and decided that I wanted to go to college for acting and got my family on board. My mom, who was a single mom, was a little reticent, but I think after that summer [in the Governor's School], she saw a shift in me and realized that it was something I wanted more than just a hobby.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Family
  • School
  • She

• Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • She
  • Sunshine