Joseph Heller Quotes

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

Joseph Heller

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• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Job
  • Want
  • Feeling

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Just
  • Watch
  • Lot

• I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Brain

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• What is the world coming to?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World
  • Coming

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Help
  • Future

• My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Always

• Western films don't do very well in India.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Very
  • India
  • Well

• It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.

  

  Kaskade
  • Live
  • Like
  • Born

• The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• THE present! it is but a drop from the seaIn the mighty depths of eternity.I love it not-it taketh its birthToo near to the dull and the common earth.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Earth
  • Present

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• Death, the greatest democracy of them all. The world's oldest complaint. Happens to us all. Rich and poor. Fat and thin. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and sons.

  

  Colum McCann
  • World
  • Death
  • Democracy

• I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Small

• Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • American
  • College
  • Player

• We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • War
  • Hope

• Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • War
  • Military
  • Japanese

• I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Believe

• For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • War
  • Enough
  • Expensive