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

• 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

• I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Trust

• Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Truth

• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.

  

  John Branch
  • Done
  • Hockey

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

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hope
  • Misery