Joseph Heller Quotes

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

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• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Men
  • Success

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Everybody
  • Ridiculous
  • Hold

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Love
  • Curious

• I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Day
  • Always

• Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• There's thieves among us Painting the wallsAll kinds of lies, and liesI never told it all

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Painting
  • Lies

• In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Wisdom

• I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Good
  • Today

• If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

  

  Allan Houston

• I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Liar

• The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Action

• I still have drive, but everything is relative.

  

  Don Rickles

• In real life I am a bit of a tomboy. I like the footy and sports. I am more comfortable in running gear than I am in heels, because I usually trip up in them.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Brother

• My collections are full of adaptable pieces: within the energetic lifestyle of L.A., they are able to take you from the beach in Malibu to the red carpet in Hollywood.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Red
  • Beach

• Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Live

• Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Education
  • Leaders

• There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Men
  • Children

• When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Broken
  • Promise

• Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down

• The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Promise
  • Maniacs