Joseph Heller Quotes
They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?Joseph Heller
Quotes to Explore
-
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden -
I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
Maggie Q -
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
Aasif Mandvi -
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda -
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
Ferdinand de Saussure
-
And understand: class differences will not save you.
H. Rap Brown -
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
F. Sionil Jose -
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
Kevin Spacey -
I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.
Cameron Crowe -
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
Aaron Allston -
I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.
Anita Ekberg
-
Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.
Banana Yoshimoto -
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
Brian Tracy -
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Look within,
H. W. L. Poonja -
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Joanne Rowling -
The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.
Zach Anner
-
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
J. D. Greear -
Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra -
Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
Melissa Bank -
They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?
Joseph Heller