Joseph Heller Quotes

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Fighter

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Quality

• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • American
  • America

• And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Want
  • You
  • Play

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• You can't impose a legacy.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • You
  • Legacy
  • Impose

• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Child
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Sometimes
  • Baby
  • Enjoy

• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Charity
  • Behavior
  • Principle

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • You
  • Look
  • Boring

• I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Friends
  • Doors
  • Iran

• The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Audience
  • Situation
  • Glasses

• I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Why
  • Yoga
  • Perfectionist

• I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Country
  • She
  • Wife

• It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • People
  • Bad

• 'That’s a nice speech, Trujillo,' Rybicki said. 'It doesn’t make it true.''General, at the moment, I wouldn’t place you as an authority on truth.'

  

  John Scalzi
  • Truth
  • True
  • Nice

• Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Gold
  • Luck
  • Certain