Joseph Heller Quotes

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

Joseph Heller

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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Persistence

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• in the summertime sometimes i sleep 'macho': ah, white t-shirt, no underpants. Sleeping macho looks very attractive on a man. I feel like it helps me breathe. 21

  

  Ze Frank
  • Sleep
  • Breathe
  • Summertime

• Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Coffee

• It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Evil

• If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs... I don't know why I lived my life.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Why
  • Die

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It's a misconception that you don't have seasons in southern California. They are just very subtle. The vegetation is very different. Plants react differently. You just have to be a little more observant.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Different
  • California

• I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

  

  Martha Raddatz

• Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.

  

  Jessica Cutler
  • People
  • Worry
  • Sex

• We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Time
  • Summer

• I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.

  

  Justin Scott
  • Live
  • Song

• I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Family
  • Character

• I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Good
  • Faith

• If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Children
  • Taken

• The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Value
  • Books
  • Uncomfortable

• I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Work
  • Men
  • Country

• I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

  

  Dino De Laurentiis
  • Ambition
  • Mirror

• Definitely do the work. Don't expect to blow up overnight. Go out, do the work, and enjoy the ride. That's really my mantra. I'm not in a hurry to be anywhere fast. I'm just enjoying the ride.

  

  Kam Williams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Blow

• It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Wise
  • Persons
  • Honest