"How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground." — J. D. Salinger, American writer, born January 1, 1919
"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." — J. D. Salinger, American writer, died January 27, 2010
"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?" — J. D. Salinger, American writer, died January 27, 2010
"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it." — J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, by published, July 16, 1951
"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, First mass inoculation against polio, February 23, 1954
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." — Jonas Salk, American medical researcher, died June 23, 1995
"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 October 28, 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 September 9, 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 September 9, 1934
"Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood." — Sonia Sanchez, American poet, born September 9, 1934
"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." — Carl Sandburg, American poet, born January 6, 1878