Calltend Quotes & Sayings

The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and no bottom. Everything could easily have happened before, or might have happened afterwards. You can read any of the conversations just as pleasurably backwards, for you don't miss the point of the gags. Every sentence is a gag, but taken together they make no point. You can also stop in the middle of a sentence
the first half still makes sense enough to live by itself, or at least seems to. The whole work has the character of a worm cut in half, that can grow a new head or a new tail as required. — C. G. Jung

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My soul may be stoned an' my luck may be rotted but I can still cuss a cuss — David Mitchell

...whom I have loved
With such communion, that no place on earth
Can ever be a solitude to me — William Wordsworth

If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood. — Chuck Norris

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love. — George Sand

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore. — Paula Malcomson

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available. — Ethel Waters