Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
Joseph Heller
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joseph Heller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 1
Died: 1999
Died: December 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Thirds
Rate
Second
World
Nixon
Richard
Third
More quotes by Joseph Heller
...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
It is the anonymous they, the enigmatic they who are in charge. Who is they? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even they themselves.
Joseph Heller
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
Joseph Heller
Rise above principal and do what's right.
Joseph Heller
The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.
Joseph Heller
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
Joseph Heller
What do you do when it rains? The captain answered frankly. I get wet.
Joseph Heller
¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨
Joseph Heller
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
Joseph Heller
I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.
Joseph Heller
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
Joseph Heller
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
Joseph Heller
Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
Joseph Heller
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
Joseph Heller
I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
Joseph Heller
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.
Joseph Heller
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
Joseph Heller
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Joseph Heller
Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
Joseph Heller