We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; “Ulysses” by… — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a Garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India;… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is… — John Munro Woolsey Copy Share Image
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread… — Homer Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes,… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“Mr. Beaumaris, who had picked Ulysses up, paid no heed to all these attempts at self-justification, but addressed himself to his adorer.… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
“I was able to correct the first half of Ulysses for the third edition and to read the first two volumes recommendés… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I… — David Baker Copy Share Image
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind.… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image