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
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. — 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
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. — Raymond Queneau 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
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain 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
“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
“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
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 must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses “might be preserved from all harm and restored to… — Ron Chernow 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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner 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
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
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people… — Roddy Doyle 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews… — John Milton 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
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