James Joyce Quotes

Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)

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• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Terrible
  • Accident

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Order
  • Now
  • Events

• Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • America
  • High

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• 'Touch'

  

  Octavio Paz

• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God
  • Faith

• I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.

  

  Jack Vance
  • History
  • True

• 'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Small

• I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Action

• I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • Done
  • Home

• The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People

• There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.

  

  James Packer
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• Without passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Energy
  • Passion

• I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant.

  

  Kalup Linzy

• Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Age
  • House
  • Earth

• A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

  

  Mike White
  • Hate
  • Flower
  • Exists

• Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

  

  Chris Bosh
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Taught

• I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

  

  Paul Bremer
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)

  

  James Joyce