I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already. Yet sometimes… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“Why was the host (victim predestined) sad? He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
“Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The worst book I’ve ever read is “Ulysses,” by Joyce, because like my undergraduate college degree, that’s nine and a half years… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face… — Stefanie Weisman Copy Share Image
If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“You can't just fly into the Great Coat, shoot your way into Bluewater, and take Kai and his father,' I told him.… — Cameron Stracher Copy Share Image
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One respect in which I'm very much my father's son is how I feel about Joyce. 'Ulysses' is very much about daily… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that… — Homer Copy Share Image
Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life".… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate — Ovid Copy Share Image
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image