J. D. Salinger Quotes

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

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• I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Dollar

• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Great
  • Together
  • Unknown

• Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Different
  • Live
  • Action

• The guest to me was always paramount.

  

  Larry King
  • Me
  • Always
  • Guest

• I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Friendships

• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Doing

• The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Internet

• There is no forgiveness in nature.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Nature
  • Forgiveness

• If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life

• I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

  

  Ba Jin
  • Life
  • Reader
  • Royalty

• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Time
  • May
  • Stupid

• I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

  

  Jessie Pavelka
  • Live
  • May

• I'm not really worried about anybody or anything. I think I have a lot to offer. It's just, with your rookie year, your body, it's just a lot. It may seem foolish, all those dunks and stuff: they look cool, but it takes a toll on your body, for sure.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • May
  • Cool

• After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • May
  • Door