Top 25 Quotes About Finnegans Wake: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Finnegans Wake

#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. There's just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what it is. You never again have to say, 'That's a great song! Who is it by?'

Phil Schiller

#10. Why squander all that love on a phantasm when there seems too little love to go around on Earth as it is? Better

Irvin D. Yalom

#11. Be kind to others as you would like them to be to you.Encourage ,don't discourage.

Wordfaith3

#12. His latest theory about his dealings with women isn't that he's lost his reason or that women are illogical (Deb, for instance, displays exemplary thought processes;) it's just that a certain vital part of the interface between them is strongly encrypted and requires some workaround.

Adam Felber

#13. The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

Rain

#14. If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

Cate Blanchett

#15. Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

Francis Schaeffer

#16. People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

John C. Reilly

#17. Ambition, while there was nothing wrong with it, was still a far cry from power. Ambition got you out of bed to make money. Power meant you could make money without ever leaving bed.

AlTonya Washington

#18. 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