Joseph Heller Quotes

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Joseph Heller

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• I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Thought

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • College
  • Rock
  • Honest

• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Always

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Think
  • Winner

• The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • American
  • Today
  • Tough

• Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• ...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • People
  • Psychology

• You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.

  

  Anastacia
  • Girl
  • Soldier

• There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Period

• I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Shine

• The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Star

• In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Life
  • Love
  • Art

• I'm always fascinated by the innocence of children and the baggage that we carry as adults which manipulates our decisions.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Children

• I've had ups and downs with my skin, but after some time, I've learned what works best and what products I need to stay away from.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Time

• I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; - Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. - You with the unpaid bill, Despair, - You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, - I will pay you in the grave, - Death will listen to your stave.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • May
  • Death
  • Sweet

• I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Advantage
  • Music Business
  • Business Model

• They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Death
  • Lady