Bananafish Salinger Quotes

#1. My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.

Karl Schroeder

#2. Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#3. The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Felix Mendelssohn

#4. There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

Peter Arnett

#5. Mother, darling, don't yell at me. I can hear you beautifully," said the girl.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

Thomas S. Monson

#7. She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

J.D. Salinger

#8. Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

George Kaiser

#10. One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.

Lokanatha Swami

#11. Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#12. To find perfect ripeness, catch it.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#13. I swear, Bobby Ray, you don't have the sense the Lord gave a rabbit.

Shelly Laurenston

#14. I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

Ben Affleck

#15. You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

Gayle Forman

#16. The sacred words are sword of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Unhealthy to the point of diseased, he'd say - he had caught something from her, some decay transmitted from soul to soul, but then he recollected contemptuously that by her own admittance she lacked a soul. At the intersection ahead they could see

Bob Shacochis

#18. Did you see more glass?

J.D. Salinger

#19. One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent ... Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Hunter S. Thompson