#catcher

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#catcher #deliver #going #govern #house

It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'Its a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business ofice, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#facts-of-life #age

I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and some times I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#j-d-salinger #salinger #age

What did your mom say?" "She said I better not be pregnant." Janie snorts. "What the hell is wrong with our parents, anyway? Wait -- you're not, are you?" "Of course not! Sheesh, Janers! I may not have gotten the best grades in school, but I'm not stupid. You know I'm on the Pill. And his Jimmy doesn't get near me without a raincoat, yadamean? Ain't nothin' getting through my little fortress! ↗

— Lisa McMann

#dream-catcher #funny #gone #janers #janie

So what, then? Pete? Clyde?" Cabel rolls over, pretending to sleep. "It's Fred, isn't it?" "Janie. Stop." "You named your thing Janie?" She giggles. Cabel groans deeply. "Go to sleep. ↗

— Lisa McMann

#dream-catcher #dream-catcher- #dreams

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#between #catcher #catcher in the rye #cliff #democracy

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#being #catcher #catcher in the rye #dreams #grow

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#based #black #boy #called #catcher

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#catcher #could #darn #fastball #handle

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one. ↗

— Wilhelm Stekel

#immaturity #quoted #salinger #selflessness #maturity