Joseph Heller Quotes

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

Joseph Heller

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• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Time
  • Present

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Dad
  • Understand

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Question

• I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Morals

• Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this 'minority?' It is difficult to say at this point, for, at the present time their influence on governmental decisions is not perceptible.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Wonder

• Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Rose

• A few years ago, I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • Happy
  • Lost

• When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Writing
  • Destiny

• Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People

• Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Hope
  • Quality

• I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Worst
  • Generations

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • China
  • Force
  • Taiwan

• In times of drought water brings us a major problem despite its essentiality, and this especially so where dams are the chief watering points, because as the waters recede the cattle have to tread over ground that is ever wetter and boggier and more difficult to cross. In their weakened condition cattle go down in this deep mud. Every day it is necessary to ride out and check these boggy dams and try to pull the cattle out.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Problem
  • Water
  • Times

• The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political