J. D. Salinger Quotes
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Quotes to Explore
-
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
-
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
-
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
-
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
-
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
-
I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
-
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
-
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
-
I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
-
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
-
Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
-
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
-
Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
-
In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days.
-
I work in a very contained environment, usually.
-
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
-
My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
-
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
