Ulysses Quotes

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

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be saying no, Molly. How about no? Saying no is great.

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus.

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.