Joseph Heller Quotes

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

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• I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Amazing
  • Dark
  • Horse

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Struggle
  • Look
  • Perseverance

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • School
  • Africa
  • Secondary

• Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Working
  • Author

• I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Men
  • Women
  • Enjoy

• I've never taken myself too seriously.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Never

• Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Job
  • American
  • Man

• A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Horse

• We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Faith
  • Passion

• I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Up
  • Beer
  • Tattoo

• When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • People
  • Trying
  • Japanese

• The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

• I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • God
  • Atheist

• Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

  

  Andre Aciman

• I could see my pitch count, so I determined that I would get a strikeout no matter what.

  

  Daisuke Matsuzaka
  • Matter
  • Determined
  • Pitch

• Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • People
  • Success
  • Achieve