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J. D. Salinger Quotes

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010

Topics

Man Enough Long Legs Touch Ground

You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.

Andrew Mitchell

Water People You See Out Level

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

Good Ethics Artist Bad Tool Used

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Life Experience Death Individual

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

Life Enjoy Life Yourself Enjoy You

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Hell Go Way Right Own Hold

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

Writing You Bad Matter Always Guy

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.

Mother Sports Experience Job School

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Good Opportunities Talents Our

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Knowledge Beautiful Wish Know I Wish

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

Richard Harding Davis

Man Red Yellow Flying Sheep Long

'Moonage Daydream' is my favourite because it's an amazing pop tune with such strange parts to it.

Amazing Strange Because Pop Daydream

We all have complexity in our lives.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Complexity Our Our Lives Lives

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