Joe Quotes
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Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.
jesse owens— The Tampa Tribune (1 April 1980)
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
joseph heller— 1961Catch-22, ch.17.
We by nature mistrust authority no matter who wields it—and I think that’s healthy. Though I disagreed with him on the facts, I fully support Rep. Joe Wilson’s right to call out President Obama—I just wish Democrats had had the balls to call out President Bush when he was peddling his lies to Congress.
rene balcer— Quoted in Harper's Magazine, October 5, The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order's Rene Balcer: On American politics.
Joe Bob says check it out.
joe bob briggs— Used as the final sentence in all reviews except the very earliest.
— Example: Ice Pirates Review
Joe Who?
joe clark— Toronto Star headline, February 23, 1976, upon Clark's winning the PC leadership.
I told my friends: 'They chose the wrong guy.' I thought that Joe Clark would be a far stronger opponent than Brian Mulroney.
joe clark— Pierre Trudeau, reflecting on Clark's loss of the PC leadership to Mulroney, Memoirs, 1995
The greatest foreign minister in Canadian history except for Lester Pearson...the person who tried first of all to get rid of the deficit...the credit for the fight in trying to get rid of the deficit belongs to Joe Clark and John Crosbie, and yet they are scorned.
joe clark— Brian Mulroney, PC Leadership Convention, May 30, 2003
[T]hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner? ... Had I been black and my name Cassius Clay, I damned well would have changed it!
howard cosell— Cosell.
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,Gone from the earth to a better land I know,I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."
stephen foster— Old Black Joe, Firth, Pond & Co. (1860).
I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.
thomas chandler haliburton— Sam Slick in England (1835), Ch. XXIV; “Sam Slick” first appeared in a weekly paper of Nova Scotia, 1835. Comparable to: "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850); "At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city" N. P. Willis, Necessity for a Promenade Drive.
Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.
larry holmes— Holmes on former champion Joe Lewis[2]
We're going to fight for Joe, my friends, we are going to fight for him.
john mccain— As quoted in John McCain telephones "Joe the Plumber" AFP (17 October 2008)
Hoover knew that Joe wasn't the best guy in the world to be doing this job. We all did ... But his attitude was, "Thank God somebody's doing it." They were fighting the same enemy, you know.
Joseph McCarthy— Robert J. Morris, as quoted in A Conspiracy So Immense?, (2005) by David M. Oshinsky, p. 258; this summation of Hoover's attitude by Morris has since appeared as if it were a direct quote of Hoover.
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.
johnny mercer— Song Blues in the Night
Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans.
— "One Enchanted Evening", Time Magazine (Aug. 9, 1954)
Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.
max schmeling— Describing Joe's punching power. [2]
The Clash are the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately, preferably with the engine running, which would undoubtedly be more of a loss to their friends and families than to either rock or roll.Their guitarist on the extreme left, allegedly known as Joe Strummer, has good moves but he and the band are a little shaky on ground that involves starting, stopping and changing chords at approximately the same time."
joe strummer— Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 1976 (source)
Joe would go into everything at a million miles an hour and then change his mind.
joe strummer— Bernard Rhodes (source)
Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween , possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. ... [W]ith the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. ... In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended - Directed By Joe Chappelle.
james berardinelli— Review of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.
ani difranco— Rolling Stone interview (1995)
“My dear, It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe, For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings there are no such things. There are only middles.
robert frost— Mountain Interval (1920), 5. In the Home Stretch, Line 187-192
I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. … Joe [Biden] and I brought an amendment to the $87 billion, and we said, `This should be paid for now, not adding to the deficit'…. The president said no; the Republicans voted no.
john kerry— San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2004 pE2
“You ever notice, Joe,” he asked, mechanically picking up the mug, “that it always takes a little more trouble to get something than the thing was really worth?” Joe considered it. “Better than taking a lot of trouble and getting nothing.” Dundee sipped the coffee. He didn’t seem to have heard Joe. “There’s so much weariness and fatigue in it all. For every action there is an equal...stupefaction. No, that might be bearable it’s greater than the action.”
tim powers— Chapter 14 (p. 342)
Dogs can see fun in things as well as people can.
Margaret Marshall Saunders— Beautiful Joe (1893, p. 137)
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road
There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring.
— "The Silent Warrior", dedicated to Joe Frazier and his family, p. 112
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay , Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, , Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”.
— Stephen C. Foster, in Heywood and Son's Up-to-date Collection of Nigger Songs and Recitations, Heywood & Son, 1865, p.6
Curly Joe DeRita (unknown)
— Last surviving member of The Three Stooges.
Viewtiful Joe... how fitting...
— Who: Alastor
— Source: Viewtiful Joe
— Notes: Character has been defeated by Joe and remarks that his moves were “beautiful,” causing Joe to take up the name “Viewtiful Joe.” Character dies after saying this, but returns in the sequel.
