James Joyce Finnegans Wake Quotes & Sayings

Even Phil the potato tasted great. — Rick Riordan

A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. — James Joyce

I'm the fastest walker, and everyone makes fun of me for it. — Kendall Jenner

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. — James Joyce

We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be. — Alexandra Stoddard

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out. — Martin Gore

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself. — Geoffrey Chew

Suck it yourself, sugarstick! — James Joyce

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes. — Shinjo Ito

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country. — William J. Clinton

In the New Testament, Christ's 'virgin birth' is related only by Luke and Matthew. It was unknown, or considered unimportant, in wide areas of early Christian belief (the Pauline and Johannine sectors, for example). But from the third century onwards it became a firm component of the Christian creeds and theological christologies. — Jurgen Moltmann

Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected. — Kathryn Lasky

All the little gods of irony must whoop and weep and roll on the floors of Olympus when they tune in on the night thoughts of a truly fatuous male. — John D. MacDonald

The great fact emerges that after that historic date all holographs so far exhumed initialled by Haromphrey bear the sigla H.C.E. and while he was only and long and always good Dook Umphrey for the hungerlean splapeens of Lucalizod and Chimbers to his cronies it was equally certainly a pleasant turn of the populace which gave him as sense of those normative letters the nickname Here Comes Everybody — James Joyce

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred. — Sylvia Beach

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower. — Jane Cleland

..they were yung and easily freudened.. — James Joyce

The opposite of compromise is character. — Frederick Douglass

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. — James Joyce