James Joyce Quotes

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

  

  Jack Warner
  • America
  • Best
  • Week

• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • She
  • Man

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Partner

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Money

• I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • American
  • Dream

• We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Kids
  • Words
  • Day

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Promises

• I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Life
  • Time
  • First Time

• Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Edge
  • Doom

• I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • God
  • Country
  • Die

• Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Different
  • Change

• We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

  

  Henry Knox
  • Support
  • Wish
  • Government

• The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  

  James Joyce
  • God