James Salter Quotes

I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had.

James Salter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1925 - June 19, 2015

Topics

FatherMeSucceedMoreAnything

There's a huge Indian population here in Toronto. Also, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton - Canada really is a great multicultural country.

Jinder Mahal

GreatCountryCanadaTorontoHere

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Jenny Holzer

HopeDoingResultAttentionChoose

Batman and Superman are probably my favorite superheroes - apart from Constantine.

Matt Ryan

SupermanFavoriteBatmanApart

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

Matt Hardy

PassionPainEasyYouBadPlace

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Andy Warhol

ThoughtAmericaYouWayNeverSee

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeTimeLife Is AKnowWantGoing

The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as - 'You don't have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.' So they see it as a positive.

Michael Dell

PositiveBusinessFocusCustomerYou

Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s.

John Tyler Bonner

ProgressBiologyEvolutionStarting

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

Stephen Frears

MyselfI AmWantNot InterestedGet

Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.

Roger Daltrey

RockRollGetOnlyWantedThing

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

Robin Leach

EveryoneTaxiLikeEveryone Else

I think most people don't even know what 'woo pig sooie' is if they're not a sports fan or they're not from Arkansas.

Matt Besser

SportsPeopleThinkPigKnowFan

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