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

• Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Most
  • Scotland
  • Engaging

• 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

• As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

  

  Mary Lambert

• Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that's at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Why
  • May

• While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their example, more than by their words, to expend themselves for high ideals.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

  

  Arthur Frederick Saunders
  • Words
  • Blessings
  • Speaker

• The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Good
  • Death
  • Horse

• 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
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