Quotes About Finnegans

#1. Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Leslie Fiedler

#3. The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

Seamus Deane

#4. I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources
Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Umberto Eco

#5. 'Finnegans Wake,' 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' live on my bedside table back home in London.

Elizabeth Jagger

#6. For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.

Philip Kitcher

#7. The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

Dennis Miller

#8. You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.

Philip Larkin

#9. In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.

Caroline Wozniacki

#10. A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

Tyra Banks

#11. Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#12. A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

Hesiod

#13. Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Harry Mathews

#14. A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

James Joyce

#15. Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

James Joyce

#16. Suck it yourself, sugarstick!

James Joyce

#17. Life is a sexually trasmitted disese.

R.D. Laing

#18. ..they were yung and easily freudened..

James Joyce

#19. No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

Andre Agassi

#20. Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

James Joyce