Joycean Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence. — Grandma Moses

You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. — Graham Greene

Of all the evil Farah had had a chance to glimpse in this room, Dorian Blackwell's smile, full of his own blood and teeth and challenge, had to be the most frightening Farah had witnessed in her entire life. His eyes were dead, devoid of any hope or humanity, the milky blue one utterly motionless but for the reflection of the torchlight lending it an unnatural pagan gleam. — Kerrigan Byrne

Burns notes the catch-22 nature of depression: The worse we feel, the more distorted our thoughts become, and this thinking plunges us even lower into black feelings about ourselves. Nearly — Tom Butler-Bowdon

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will. — Napoleon Hill

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

I'm fine. Jeff on the other hand, not so much. — Bella Jeanisse

We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions. — Tessa Dare

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace. — Ayn Rand

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning. — Diego Rivera