J D Salinger Franny And Zooey Quotes

#1. He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. 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

#3. Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#4. My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

Ray Charles

#5. 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

#6. Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die

Paul Watson

#7. Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?

R.J. Palacio

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

Nick Clegg

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

J.D. Salinger

#12. If you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of someone else.

Sahithi Setikam

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

J.D. Salinger

#14. 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

#15. Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Abdus Salam

#16. Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up.
She sounded as though she was having sex.
Good sex.

Cherry Adair