James Joyce Quotes

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• I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Important
  • Show

• The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Hard
  • Wrestling
  • Passions

• It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Wife

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Alone
  • Determination
  • Socialism

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Wine

• Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Start

• Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Brave

• I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Science
  • Education

• My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Inspiration

• Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • World
  • War
  • Solution

• War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Business
  • War
  • True

• That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Boxing

• Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law

• That's what the 'Doctor' is about, essentially - having that energy that you just can't understand.

  

  Billie Piper
  • Energy

• Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Home
  • Wool

• Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Bad
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

  

  Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • People
  • Work
  • Acceptance

• I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

  

  Amy Bloom

• Does nobody understand?

  

  James Joyce