Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
The Catcher in the Rye Quotes, Famous Catcher in the Rye Quotes
The
thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your
suitcases are much better than theirs - if yours are really
good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent
and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that
they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they
do. They really do. It's one of the reasons why I roomed with
a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were
as good as mine. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 15
Catholics
are always trying to find out if you're Catholic. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 15
Goddam
money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 15
He
was singing that song, "If a body catch a body coming through
the rye." He had a pretty little voice too. He was just
singing for the hell of it, you could tell. The cars zoomed
by, the brakes screeched all over the place, his parents paid
no attention to him, and he kept on walking next to the kerb
and singing "If a body catch a body coming through the
rye." It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed
anymore. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 16
If
a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's
late? Nobody. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 17
"Promise
me you'll let your hair grow. Crew cuts are getting corny. And
your hair's so lovely."
Lovely my ass. The Catcher in the Rye Sally Hayes and Holden Caulfield in Chapter
17
The
waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her - she didn't drink
- and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't
bring you one, so I had a Coke too. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 17
Take
most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get
a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how
many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new
car already they start thinking about trading it in for one
that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't
even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is
at least human, for God's sake. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 17
"You
ought to go to a boy's school sometimes. Try it sometime,"
I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study
so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to
buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making
believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all
you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody
sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques. The guys
that are on the basketball team stick together, the goddam intellectuals
stick together, the guys that play bridge stick together. Even
the guys that belong to the goddam Book-of-the-Month
Club stick together." The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 17
Girls.
You never know what they're going to think. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 18
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