Joseph Heller Quotes

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

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• One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Reading
  • Serious
  • Write

• No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Secret
  • Ever

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Tongue

• I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • California

• Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Career
  • Language

• I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Awareness

• If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Management
  • Partner
  • Data

• The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Freedom
  • Single
  • Spiritual

• I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Stories
  • Writer
  • Magazines

• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Fearless

• I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Box

• He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Music

• When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • World
  • Family
  • She

• Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Important

• We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth. ... As elders of Israel, very few of us fully comprehend our position, our calling, our relationship to God, our responsibility, or work the Lord requires at our hands

  

  G. Homer Durham
  • Work
  • God
  • May

• Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Future
  • Today
  • Challenge

• If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Beautiful
  • Way
  • Wish

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Taken
  • Dance

• Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  

  Joseph Heller
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  • Military
  • Feels