James Joyce Quotes

I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Prayer is man's greatest power!

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Power
  • Man
  • Prayer

• I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Cool
  • Nothing
  • Punishment

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Best
  • Become
  • Well-Rounded

• When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Ashamed
  • Lady
  • Argue

• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Laughter
  • Laugh
  • Knowing

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• I always had a fascination with twins.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Always
  • Fascination
  • Twins

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Change
  • Risk

• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Policy
  • Israel
  • Palestine

• For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• 'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Book
  • Small
  • Church

• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

  

  Paul Watzlawick
  • World
  • Words

• I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

  

  Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
  • Working
  • Complain
  • Photo

• I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

  

  James Joyce
  • Words