Joe Haldeman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
-
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
-
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
-
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
-
It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
-
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
-
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
-
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
-
I believe in following opportunities.
-
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
-
My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.
-
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
-
I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
-
I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
-
I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.
-
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
-
So many ways to be deemed unclean
-
The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.
-
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
-
I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.
-
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
-
I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.
-
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
-
Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
