Joseph Heller Quotes

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

Joseph Heller

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• Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Future
  • Disappear
  • Cataclysm

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Movement
  • Disappear

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Up
  • Different
  • Study

• The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Lost
  • Israel
  • Disappear

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Brilliant
  • Wrote
  • Grammar

• Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Careers

• Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

  

  Mary Astor
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Deep

• Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • World
  • Eye

• Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Evil
  • Disappear
  • Oppose

• Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Tree
  • Logic
  • Grammar

• Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

  

  John Milton
  • Points
  • Grammar
  • Expert

• I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Passion
  • Disappear
  • My Love

• Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • Slavery
  • Racism
  • Economic

• I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Moving
  • Track
  • Disappear

• She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Long
  • Water
  • Moments

• As I walked down to the end of the barracks, there was applause from the men too weak to get out of bed. It sounded like the hand clapping of babies; they were so weak.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Men
  • Hand

• For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Learning

• I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

  

  Murray Bartlett
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Being

• Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Country
  • Behinds
  • Decency

• Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Disappear
  • Grammar