Confederacy Of Dunces Quotes

#1. I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

Stephan Pastis

#2. Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.

Jill Ciment

#3. I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tamara Feldman

#4. Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Poppy Z. Brite

#5. And when I look into his eyes there's a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.

Rebecca James

#6. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

John Kennedy Toole

#7. I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.

Olivia Wilde

#8. There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

#9. Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Kevin Costner

#10. Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo-wee. The cotton fiel be burn to the groun before I'm through."
Watch out, Jones. Don be getting yourself in no trouble."
Whoa!

John Kennedy Toole

#11. Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

Ray Bradbury

#12. Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

Marc Kielburger

#13. When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects]

Jonathan Swift

#14. I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

Freya Stark

#15. For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.

Juan Goytisolo

#16. He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#17. Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#18. This man was the husband of my heart. I'd be a man for him, the man he deserved.

T.A. Webb

#19. There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

Charlie Kaufman

#20. When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

#21. When ALL is said and DONE, What will matter to our Heavenly Father will be how well we have Kept Our Covenants and how much we have tried to follow the example of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Linda S. Reeves