Joseph Heller Quotes

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Joseph Heller

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• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Start

• Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Conversation

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Thought
  • Patience
  • Year

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Good
  • Best
  • Bitter

• My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • College
  • Teaching
  • Aim

• I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Sure

• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Good
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

• My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Job
  • Tomorrow
  • Performance

• I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Conflict
  • Interested
  • Crisis

• Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

  

  F. M. Powicke
  • History
  • Way
  • Doe

• There are many ways to relax a problem, and we’ve seen three of the most important. The first, Constraint Relaxation, simply removes some constraints altogether and makes progress on a looser form of the problem before coming back to reality. The second, Continuous Relaxation, turns discrete or binary choices into continua: when deciding between iced tea and lemonade, first imagine a 50–50 “Arnold Palmer” blend and then round it up or down. The third, Lagrangian Relaxation, turns impossibilities into mere penalties, teaching the art of bending the rules..

  

  Brian Christian
  • Art
  • Problem
  • Rules

• The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Feeling
  • Joy
  • Progress

• I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think everyone should have a free spirit.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Kids

• We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Girl
  • Shows
  • Available

• Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Trying
  • Habit
  • Break