D B Caulfield Quotes

#1. I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.

Joan Caulfield

#2. the sentence im reading is terrific ...

J.D. Salinger

#3. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.

J.D. Salinger

#4. Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

Maxwell Caulfield

#5. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

J.D. Salinger

#6. For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

Emma Caulfield

#7. We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

Emma Caulfield

#8. I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.

Stephen Metcalf

#9. is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#10. I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

Emma Caulfield

#11. I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Maxwell Caulfield

#12. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.

J.D. Salinger

#13. He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

J.D. Salinger

#14. I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

Emma Caulfield

#15. I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.

Mark David Chapman

#16. Original sin was always never knowing when to stop, sweetheart.

Sarah Caulfield

#17. The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

Emma Caulfield

#18. Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#19. I am Holden Caulfield, only less reckless, and more attractive.

Ben Brooks

#20. Coffee is a pretty miraculous beverage. It has many well-documented health benefits, including reducing the risk of various diseases. There are few, if any, reasons to avoid coffee and there may be numerous reasons to drink it

Timothy Caulfield

#21. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.

Emma Caulfield

#22. And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

J.D. Salinger

#23. We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

Emma Caulfield

#24. I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest - HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.

Lia Riley

#25. He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.

Sarah Mlynowski

#26. There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Maxwell Caulfield

#27. I think talking about one's love life is always ... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

Emma Caulfield

#28. Holden Caulfield people are the bane of my existence.

Autumn Doughton

#29. Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

#30. I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo