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

• I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"

  

  Brian Regan
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Horrible

• No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Words
  • Nasty

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Trust

• Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.

  

  Kimbal Musk

• 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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