Top 100 Joyce's Quotes

#1. The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses]

Virginia Woolf

Joyce's Quotes #238193
#2. James Joyce's Ulysses

Pamela Paul

Joyce's Quotes #257667
#3. In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season spring.

John Munro Woolsey

Joyce's Quotes #285243
#4. Did you take Joyce's engine?'
'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.

Janet Evanovich

Joyce's Quotes #419316
#5. Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face in your academic career.

Stefanie Weisman

Joyce's Quotes #428502
#6. I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Joyce's Quotes #508056
#7. Did he like elms? Did he know Joyce's
poem about the two washerwomen? He did, indeed. Did he like
it? He did. In fact he was beginning to like very much arbors
and ardors and Adas

Vladimir Nabokov

Joyce's Quotes #971175
#8. 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

Joyce's Quotes #1169429
#9. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

Philip Pullman

Joyce's Quotes #1232601
#10. The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

Roger Rosenblatt

Joyce's Quotes #1273947
#11. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

William Faulkner

Joyce's Quotes #1475703
#12. It was the night that the power went out in Berkeley that he'd finished Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the light of a candle. Sometimes you need to be forced to study what's right in front of you.

Anne Rice

Joyce's Quotes #1610314
#13. Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Julian Barnes

Joyce's Quotes #1694860
#14. History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Robert Anton Wilson

Joyce's Quotes #1702628
#15. For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

George Steiner

Joyce's Quotes #1765015
#16. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #88
#17. It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #3271
#18. James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.

Rashers Tierney

Joyce's Quotes #9109
#19. A lot of your problem was in your head. You see yourself screwing up, it's going to happen.

Joyce Maynard

Joyce's Quotes #13891
#20. I love insult, it's always honest.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #14469
#21. Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #21568
#22. Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #21849
#23. Although member countries ratified the UN's millennium goals, fighting enemies represents by far the biggest allocation of most countries' resources.

Joyce F Benenson

Joyce's Quotes #26852
#24. After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #31170
#25. Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do ... even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #40590
#26. Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Joyce Brothers

Joyce's Quotes #40656
#27. Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #43035
#28. I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #44236
#29. When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #51727
#30. People cannot change people. Only God can get inside a person's heart and cause him or her to want to change.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #52879
#31. Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #53981
#32. Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life
one that must be dealt with.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #55274
#33. The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #56909
#34. At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #57267
#35. I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #61117
#36. Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #65519
#37. Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #68705
#38. If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

Joyce Brothers

Joyce's Quotes #70350
#39. For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Joyce Brothers

Joyce's Quotes #71327
#40. Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.

Brenda Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #71782
#41. People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

Joyce DeWitt

Joyce's Quotes #73753
#42. Cyrus's momma thinks I'm a gift from God. I didn't have the heart to tell her if I was then God was guilty of handing out gag gifts, Joyce said.

Carolyn Brown

Joyce's Quotes #74252
#43. Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #78320
#44. We can look at Joseph's example and realize through good times and bad, we must stay the course, being diligent and enthusiastic about what God brings. If He brings you to it, we must remember, He will bring you through it as well.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #78472
#45. A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.

William Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #99004
#46. BLAIRE: ......Night, Chaos.
GENTRY: Night, Trouble.....

T.S. Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #99588
#47. My mother's view on love appalled me. It suggested love had more in common with the boiling of an egg than the discovery of another person from whom one couldn't bear to live apart

Rachel Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #105043
#48. One of the things I love most about being at home is that I'm comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He's comfortable in us.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #105156
#49. If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #109702
#50. The Log in My Eye You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye. MATTHEW 7:5

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #110084
#51. It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #111246
#52. It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing
how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'
and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #113381
#53. I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency]. PHILIPPIANS 4:13

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #113746
#54. A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #114413
#55. It struck Harold afresh how life could change in an instant. You could be doing something so everyday - walking your partner's dog, putting on your shoes - and not knowing that everything you wanted you were about to lose.

Rachel Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #122871
#56. The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #123611
#57. I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #124229
#58. There's no police like Holmes.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #125974
#59. Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #132233
#60. If she lets us down, if she's weird sometimes - just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #134589
#61. I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year's Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.

Joyce Banda

Joyce's Quotes #137974
#62. All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.

William Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #139647
#63. A weak man was intimidated by a strong woman.

T.S. Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #143199
#64. The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #143991
#65. It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #145130
#66. It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster.
Adele, Henry's Mother

Joyce Maynard

Joyce's Quotes #156317
#67. I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #158079
#68. The parts of our lives that take the most work are the most worth it.

T.S. Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #159052
#69. In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #160693
#70. Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #163785
#71. In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

Frederick Lenz

Joyce's Quotes #167060
#72. I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #169019
#73. I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #174057
#74. A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

Joyce Maynard

Joyce's Quotes #175479
#75. I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #176508
#76. Sometimes things need to break all the way before they can be put back together again. Maybe

T.S. Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #181748
#77. A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #184542
#78. When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #190597
#79. Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

Brian Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #191925
#80. Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #192202
#81. On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.

Rachel Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #197225
#82. People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #201183
#83. I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were like, 'I can't do that. It sounds gross.' Once you train your hair, it will do whatever you want it to do. And on day seven when it's too oily, you just put it in a ponytail.

Joyce Giraud

Joyce's Quotes #201218
#84. That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's very dangerous.

Rachel Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #201597
#85. For his part, the stranger was drifting in Annabel's direction, yet not very deliberately. As if, in some way, he were being drawn to her, by some (unconscious) motion or motive of Annabel herself. Why

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #205341
#86. 11. Scooby Doo's real name is Scoobert - True or False? True.

Arthur Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #220755
#87. Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God's eyes they do

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #227100
#88. Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody's body.

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #228667
#89. God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #230522
#90. Something you have to make ... It's all work, work.

Joyce Cary

Joyce's Quotes #231396
#91. Being with someone and still feeling completely alone was the worst feeling in the world.

T.S. Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #233726
#92. Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #234731
#93. Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Joyce Brothers

Joyce's Quotes #236538
#94. In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old ... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #245714
#95. To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative
this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #246245
#96. Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #247853
#97. The hard part of humanity is history. All that's been done to human beings by other human beings. In the Rocky River Nature Preserve you didn't have to think of such things.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce's Quotes #251722
#98. Groangrousegurgling Toft's cumbersome whirligig turns slowly the room right roundabout the room.)

James Joyce

Joyce's Quotes #252428
#99. Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you.

Joyce Meyer

Joyce's Quotes #252494
#100. It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.

Joyce Rachelle

Joyce's Quotes #254448

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