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Tell me that Billy Joe Armstrong doesn’t look like a fruit.
bill allred— Radio From Hell (August 29, 2005)
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.
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.
Adam Skirving— 1939 Five Bells, title poem.The poem was written as an elegy for Joe Lynch, a friend who fell overboard from a Sydney ferry.
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.
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last nightAlive as you or meSays I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead,""I never died," says he.
joe hill— Written by Alfred Hayes (c. 1930), recorded by numerous artists including Billy Bragg, Earl Robinson, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, and Joan Baez.
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]
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)
“A philosophical problem of no importance or meaning,” Joe said. “And incapable of being proved one way or the other.”
philip kindred dick— Chapter 9 (p. 115)
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.
Billy Wilder (himself and Joe E. Brown)
— "Nobody's perfect" is the final line of the movie "Some Like It Hot."
Dammit Joe! I told you how much that hurts!
— Who: Phelous
— Source: "Pulselousdotcom.com" (Pulse 3 review)
— Note: Says this as he is being shot repeatedly by a former Internet ghost, "Angry Joe" Vargas.
