"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?" — J. D. Salinger, American writer, born 1919
"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it." — J. D. Salinger, American writer, born 1919
"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner." — Jonas Salk, American medical researcher, born 1914
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." — Jonas Salk, American medical researcher, born 1914
"When asked who owned the polio vaccine patent, Salk replied: There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" — Jonas Salk, American medical researcher, born 1914
"Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves." — Mary Jo Salter, American poet, born August 15, 1954
"You kind of live and die by the serve." — Pete Sampras, American tennis player, born August 12, 1971
"I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul." — Sonia Sanchez, American poet, born 1934
"I still hear you humming, Mama. The color of your song calls me home. The color of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama." — Sonia Sanchez, American poet, born 1934
"Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood." — Sonia Sanchez, American poet, born 1934
"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." — Carl Sandburg, American poet, born January 6, 1878
"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence." — Carl Sandburg, American poet, born January 6, 1878
"When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on." — Carl Sandburg, American poet, died July 22, 1967