James Joyce Quotes

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

James Joyce

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• I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Child
  • Pride
  • Take

• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Perfection
  • Grave
  • Dull

• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Picture
  • Details
  • Filmmaking

• Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Now

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• What's a soup kitchen?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Kitchen
  • Soup

• I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Long
  • Driving

• I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Done
  • Special

• In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • School
  • Remember

• I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Wanted
  • Guitar
  • Learned

• When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Like
  • Enough
  • Mature

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Training

• The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Live
  • Family
  • Together

• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Should

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Movie
  • Crazy

• Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Generation

• When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Work
  • Children
  • Trying

• I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.

  

  Audrina Patridge

• I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Up
  • Reality

• There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Feelings
  • Torture
  • Benumb

• In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

  

  James Joyce