James Joyce Quotes

Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess. (286.25-27)

James Joyce

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Architecture
  • Advertising

• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Things

• I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Health

• It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Fans
  • Arizona

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Night
  • Saturday

• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Intention

• I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Long
  • Care
  • Perception

• Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms - all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet…. The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thoughts
  • Path
  • Memories

• Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Calm
  • Frozen

• Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Fear
  • Anxiety

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Help

• You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Why

• The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Police

• I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Done
  • Desire

• I'll sleep anywhere!

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Sleep

• I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life, and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path.

  

  Melora Hardin
  • People
  • Different
  • Artist

• Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Green

• I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

  

  Jimmy Cliff

• Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

  

  Jimmie Johnson
  • House

• Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess. (286.25-27)

  

  James Joyce