Jocoserious Joyce Quotes & Sayings

When God gives us a talent it is our responsibility to hone it for His purpose and glory — Yoshiko Sakurai

People who ask you if you've ever seen a ghost are always people who believe in ghosts. They're limbering up to tell their own ghost story. These are always remarkably tedious efforts about feeling as if someone had brushed past them but nobody being there. I always think that if you're lying anyway you should at least make it interesting. — Frankie Boyle

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off. — Zong Qinghou

James hoped the newsletter would garner support from Bahana, or white people, to stop a town well that the Bureau of Indian Affairs wanted to dig and a tower it wanted to erect to store the water. The Hotevilla elders were willing to lay down their lives in this battle. They'd done it before, preventing the BIA from bringing electricity to the village by lying down in front of bulldozers. If that well went in, James explained, people would waste water. Their spring would dry out- an unthinkable tragedy, as it would make it impossible for them to live there any longer. Could two cultures be any different? I now wondered. We were taking federal money to mine water and would do so until the unlikely day that same government made us stop. The Hopi had been trying to prevent the government from giving them a well in the first place. — Julene Bair

Satisfaction is dead weight. — Yonason Goldson

I got started as an actor when I was 12. — Ray Bradbury

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. — Christine Baranski

I made one untitled piece. — Damien Hirst

I can't imagine how they must have felt, coming up here in their car and hoping against hope that when they got to the morgue, it would turn out to be someone else's well-loved child. — Stephen King

The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with. — Jorge Luis Borges

Take General Electric, for instance. Its happy ad jingle, "We Bring Good Things to Life," doesn't tell you that GE has been (1) a major maker of nuclear weapons parts, — Gloria Steinem

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do. — Octavia Butler

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that! — Agatha Christie