Joe Kavalier Quotes

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief. ~ Michael Chabon

As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be, as so often occurs when memory and desire conjoin with a transient effect of weather, the pang of creation. The desire he felt, watching Joe, was unquestionably physical, but in the sense that Sammy wanted to inhabit the body of his cousin, not possess it. It was, in part, a longing
common enough among the inventors of heroes
to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved. Joe Kavalier had an air of competence, of faith in his own abilities, that Sammy, by means of constant effort over the whole of his life, had finally learned only to fake. ~ Michael Chabon

I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it.I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me. ~ Joe Manganiello

That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit. ~ Joe Hill

And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear. ~ Joe Strummer

And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers. ~ Joe Arpaio

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now. ~ Tom Felton

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings. ~ Joe Eszterhas

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000. ~ Jacob Ruppert

I thought I'd died and gone to Yale. ~ Joe Biden

When you think about where guitar playing is going today ... : it's going everywhere at the same time. ~ Joe Satriani

I may not believe what you believe but I do believe in your right to believe it. ~ Joe Beaton

Faith is like a kernel of wheat. ~ Joe Bob Briggs

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure. ~ Joe Baca

Your life, ambitions, dreams and goals are made possible by about three pounds of brain matter. Feed your brain a with healthy diet. ~ Joe Mehl

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement. ~ Joe Hill

And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead. ~ Joe Walker

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people. ~ Joe Strummer

It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something about it."

"Thank you, Father Joe! I think I knew that once, but I'd forgotten. Contemptus mundi. We both have contempt for the world."

"You p-p-persist in your error, my son. Contemptus does not mean 'contempt.' It means 'detachment.' Are you detached from the things you satirize? ~ Tony Hendra

By the time Gilbert and I reached home we felt like two hydrants in unfortunate proximity to a kennel. ~ Joe Keenan

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"
anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people. ~ Joe Bob Briggs

And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me. ~ Joe Budden

So what strikes me most about the Heartland Conference is that I am with people that are in love with weather, climate, and their country, and many of them have loved these longer and stronger than I have. ~ Joe Bastardi

I ran to Joe and pulled him in. I pushed my face into his jacket and breathed in the wool and dry-cleaning. Joe's height was always a narcotic for me, the way my head hit him at the chest. I dug my fingers under his shoulder blades and turned my cheek so my nose touched flesh. The dampness of his clavicle, the tickle of his chest hair. The smell of Joe. My man. ~ Maria Semple

Or maybe he was seeing double. Bad stuff, gin. Should 'ave switched to rum a long time ago. Good stuff, rum. You could drink it, or take a bath in it. No, that was gin - he meant Joe. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

If you hated someone, she was at least worthy of your passion. He ~ Joe Hill

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us. ~ Joe Wilson

What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers ... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records ... The roots of rock 'n' roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at. ~ Joe Strummer

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed. ~ Joe Biden

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning. ~ Joe Pantoliano

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize. ~ Joe Hill

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions. ~ Joe Henderson

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain. ~ Charles Dickens

The principle of avoiding conflict and never opposing an aggressor's strength head-on is the essence of aikido. We apply the same principle to problems that arise in life. The skilled aikidoist is as elusive as the truth of Zen; he makes himself into a koan - a puzzle which slips away the more one tries to solve it. He is like water in that he falls through the fingers of those who try to clutch him. Water does not hesitate before it yields, for the moment the fingers begin to close it moves away, not of its own strength, but by using the pressure applied to it. It is for this reason, perhaps, that one of the symbols for aikido is water. ~ Joe Hyams

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book. ~ Joe Haldeman