Joseph Heller Quotes

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Joseph Heller

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• I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Inside

• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Study

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Sick
  • Laugh

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Lies

• '... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Hope

• And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

  

  Billy Crystal

• I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Father

• I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Writing
  • Literature

• I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

  

  Jeff Minter
  • Mind

• As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it.

  

  Lee Gutkind

• Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Live
  • May

• I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Up
  • Together
  • Black

• I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

  

  Brendan Coyle

• Good government is no substitute for self-government.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Substitute
  • Self-government

• We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Country
  • Home

• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• He was never without misery, and never without hope.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hope
  • Misery