Catcher In The Rye Holdens Quotes & Sayings

Relax now. That's the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one's leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions. — Alan Campbell

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough. — Daniel H. Wilson

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement. — Nelson Rodrigues

Our teachers need a snow day. They look unusually pale. The men aren't shaving carefully and the women never remove their boots. They suffer some sort of teacherflu. Their noses drip, their eyes are rimmed with red. They come to school long enough to infect the staff room then go home sick when the sub shows up. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on. — Ted Nugent

She's not talking to me. She's talking to the Imaginary Daily Mail Judge, who constantly watches her life and gives it marks out of ten. — Sophie Kinsella

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past. — Euripides

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be ... Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I turned and looked out the window at the snow and tried to think of the year-round sunshine in California. I tasted salt as tears streamed down my face and into my mouth. Marge said, "You can't move. — Madelon Phillips

It occurs to me with rising concern that a blow-in can also blow away. — Jandy Nelson