Dubliners James Joyce Quotes

#1. In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

Charles Darwin

#2. The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

Wendell Berry

#3. Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

James Joyce

#4. I can't talk. I can't walk. I can't feed myself or take myself to the bathroom. Big bummer.

Sharon M. Draper

#5. For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Evan Dando

#6. If a clock represented a pie chart, then I just ate a slice of apple pie so large it represents 33 minutes. That means I'm three minutes late for dinner!

Jarod Kintz

#7. I would be really happy to be working and be able to do my craft.

Melanie Griffith

#8. In the nineteenth century, poetry was a bestselling genre rather than the cultish phenomenon it is now.

John McWhorter

#9. The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine ... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

George Santayana

#10. Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce's family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners and a story in the book titled "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." Regardless of race, regardless of class, that story was universal, he said.

Ernest J. Gaines

#11. A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

Phillip Lim

#13. You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

Catherynne M Valente