English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

J. D. Salinger Quotes

He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn boat, he'd want to know who the guy that was rowing it before he'd even get in.

J. D. Salinger

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote... Leo Tolstoy
Nicholas Sparks quote: "There's nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day at the..."
There's nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day at the beach. Nicholas Sparks
Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes... Frank Herbert
Marjane Satrapi quote: "Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die."
Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die. Marjane Satrapi
Barbara Tuchman quote: "Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great..."
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. Barbara Tuchman
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know? Carrie Fisher
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. John Yoo
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. Trevor Nunn
Daniel Craig quote: "I take my work seriously."
I take my work seriously. Daniel Craig
Lillian Gordy Carter quote: "Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going..."
Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. Lillian Gordy Carter
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. Ralph A. Cram
Carmen Electra quote: "I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so..."
I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious. Carmen Electra
Oprah Winfrey quote: "In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity."
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface. Stephenie Meyer
Abraham Polonsky quote: "A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what..."
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. Abraham Polonsky