Quotes & Sayings About The Museum In The Catcher In The Rye

Memory revises me.
Even now a letter
comes from a place
I don't know, from someone
with my name
and postmarked years ago,
while I await
injunctions from the light
or the dark;
I wait for shapeliness
limned, or dissolution.
Is paradise due or narrowly missed
until another thousand years?
I wait
in a blue hour
and faraway noise of hammering,
and on a page a poem begun, something
about to be dispersed,
something about to come into being. — Li-Young Lee

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want — Lana Del Rey

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger. — Louise Fitzhugh

We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God. — Joshua Bell

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state. — Adam Smith

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape. — Rob Sheffield

He isn't looking at the view because his past life keeps flashing in front of his eyes and getting in the way — Terry Pratchett

first seek ye the kingdom of pure practical intelligence

shreds of posters and headlines
shards of gramophone records feathers

lights shining arcs
the well-lit borders

when the rush-hour comes
and the hour of the pile-up
and the sounds of breaking steel-plate and people
are heard in the dark

when the journey is broken, no one is on the right road — Pentti Saarikoski

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?"
"It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words ... — Cassandra Clare

Sharing is sometimes
more demanding than giving. — Mary Catherine Bateson

And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly. — Benazir Bhutto

If and perhaps ... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action. — John Flanagan

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society. — Robert Carlyle