Joseph Heller Quotes

Insanity is contagious.

Joseph Heller

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• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Know
  • Me

• I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Worry
  • Down
  • Numbers

• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Know
  • Relationship

• Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

• When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Live
  • Experience

• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • True

• The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Done
  • May

• If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • Night

• I would like to be the best in the world, but that's not the be-all and end-all. I want to have fun in my sport, and I want to take it as far as I can. Obviously, I do have big goals like that. But they don't take over who I am as a person and my family and everything else that's important in my life.

  

  Kirsten Sweetland
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

  

  Jim McMahon

• All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison
  • Life
  • Taken

• What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

  

  Pinetop Perkins
  • School

• I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • People

• Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Great

• It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

  

  John Muir
  • Up
  • Men
  • Food

• But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

  

  Payne Stewart
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Golf

• Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Darkness
  • Insanity
  • Strange Inhumanity

• Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Insanity

• Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

  

  Epictetus
  • Good
  • Sun

• The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Situation
  • Constitution

• Insanity is contagious.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Insanity
  • Contagious