Top 35 Salinger Catcher Rye Quotes
#1. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#2. To Hell with the cherub! roared Comandante Marescotti.
Anne Fortier
#3. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains.
J.D. Salinger
#4. I mean if thousands of little kids are running and they do not look where they are going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day, I just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but this is the only thing that I really like to do!
J.D. Salinger
#5. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, ... ,and he had very red hair.
J.D. Salinger
#7. All I wanted was to be a regional-theater actor, to be in a company. I thought it would be a great life. I don't think I understood how difficult it would be.
Julianne Moore
#8. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
J.D. Salinger
#10. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. Salinger
#13. I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.
Charlie Kaufman
#14. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.
J.D. Salinger
#15. Instead of accepting plea bargains, large numbers of people collectively demand their constitutional right to a jury of their peers.
Daniel Hunter
#16. I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I always act corny too.
J.D. Salinger
#17. New York is terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night.
J.D. Salinger
#18. It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.
Alison Bechdel
#19. I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.
J.D. Salinger
#20. Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
- Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
#21. DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.
Shane Salerno
#22. My guys saw you on Fremont last week, Dan. You know what they saw you doing?" "Their mothers?" I replied. "Funny," he said and turned back to Juliette.
Craig Schaefer
#23. The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles ...
Lance Armstrong
#24. Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.
Yves Behar
#25. The catcher in the rye ... that's all I really want to be ...
J.D. Salinger
#26. [On The Catcher in the Rye] "This Salinger, he's a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book though, it's too long. Gets kind of monotonous. And he should've cut out a lot about these jerks and all that crumby school. They depress me. - James Stern
The New York Times
#27. The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill.
Wallace Stevens
#28. I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and some times I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.
J.D. Salinger
#29. Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.
J.D. Salinger
#30. 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
#31. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.
J.D. Salinger
#32. Oh, I don't know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don't know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.
J.D. Salinger
#33. What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times ... hopefully.
Jo Brand
#34. Contrast J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. The author adopts the childish view of adults as inhumanly powerful and uncomprehending, and never goes beyond it; and so his novel, published for adults, is better appreciated by ten-year-olds. The
Ursula K. Le Guin
#35. I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. Salinger
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