James Joyce Quotes

I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness.

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Great
  • You
  • Depression

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Time
  • Real
  • Moments

• Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Mother
  • House
  • Special

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Book
  • American
  • Revolution

• Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Age
  • Know
  • Football

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Adolescence

• When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Sun

• In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mystery

• Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.

  

  Charles Francis Richter
  • Simple
  • Safety

• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Good
  • Reading

• I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness.

  

  James Joyce
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