Quotes of the Week - Oct 12, 2008:
"Your company is now bankrupt, our economy is now in a state of crisis,
but you get to keep $480 million. I have a very basic question for you:
Is this fair?" -- Henry Waxman, chairman of US House Oversight Committee,
questioning Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld over bank's collapse.
"Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so
imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their
own country." -- Sarah Palin, accusing Barack Obama of associating
with Bill Ayers, founder of Weather Underground, which was involved in
several bombings in early 1970s.
"We can solve this crisis — and we will." -- US President
George Bush, on economic crisis.
Authors:
J. D. Salinger Quotes, Famous J. D. Salinger Quotes, Quotations
Girls.
You never know what they're going to think. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Holden Caulfield
If
a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if
she's late? Nobody. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Holden
Caulfield
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…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. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Holden Caulfield
Boy,
when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when
I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river
or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery.
People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach
on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're
dead? Nobody. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Holden Caulfield
I
keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this
big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of some
crazy cliff. 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 do all day. I'd just
be the catcher in the rye. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Holden Caulfield
I
hate phonies. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Holden Caulfield
She
is the queen of the phonies. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Holden Caulfield
Don't
ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, last, lines, spoken
by Holden Caulfield
I
am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting
to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger
Sex
and the City
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