Franny And Zooey Quotes

#1. Memorial branch had fallen on its side, but it was still visible, poking up out of the water below the Highledge. Brackenfur and Dustpelt waded over to it and dragged it back to the bushes where the other cats waited. "It's not floating very well," Brackenfur

Erin Hunter

#2. I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. Thirty-seven of them will be about shy, reclusive pennsylvania dutch lesbian who wants to write, told first-person by a lecherous hired hand. In dialect.

J.D. Salinger

#4. Know mankind well,
don't degrade every man as evil,
and don't exalt every man
thinking he is good.
He who cannot discover himself;
cannot discover the world.

Rumi

#5. Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. I have a passion for life that allows me to make the most of my days and fill them with work and play.

Nick Symmonds

#7. Change is the only universal law in nature. People resist the universal law of nature. As if they can resist it. And they suffer. People suffer because of their own resistance and rigidness. Otherwise, life if so simple and straight-forward.

His Holiness Divas

#8. In a matter of only a few seconds, in fact, her eyes appeared to jettison everything that was dark and heavy and to glow with fan-club appreciation.

J.D. Salinger

#9. Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.

Fabian Cancellara

#10. If you can concentrate on listening to another person - without your own viewpoint getting in the way, without judging or discarding or thinking of a response - for the simple purpose of taking in someone else's reality, you start to understand her.

L. Alison Heller

#11. Speechless?" asked Erec. "Don't be ashamed. I bring all ladies to that state sooner or later."
"Too bad for you," she said, "I'm not a lady.

Rosamund Hodge

#12. Then, as though he had suddenly become exhausted-or, rather, depleted by the demands made on him by a world greedy for the fruit of his intellect-he began to massage the side of his face with the flat of his hand, removing, with unconscious crassness, a bit of sleep from one eye.

J.D. Salinger

#13. Mrs. Glass watched him pull it on. She didn't stay for the tying of the lace, however.
Instead, she left the room.

J.D. Salinger

#14. I just hope that one day - preferably when we're both blind drunk - we can talk about it.

J.D. Salinger

#15. I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life.

J.D. Salinger

#16. I make everybody feel that he doesn't really want to do any good work but that he just wants to get work done that will be thought good by everyone he knows ...

J.D. Salinger