Ulysses Quotes

48 quotes by 36 authors

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. — Orson Scott Card
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… — Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid… — James Joyce
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… — Dan Rather
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… — Roddy Doyle
Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what… — James Joyce
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… — Raymond Queneau
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… — Craig Raine
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… — Joachim du Bellay
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain
Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey. — Joachim du Bellay
There's no easy way to say this, so I'Â€Â™ll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes, it's official. The… — Stephen F. Hayes
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. — Virginia Woolf
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I… — Sarah Vowell
It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips â€“ biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses,… — Maxine
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… — Kate DiCamillo
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. — Raymond Queneau
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
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. — Allan Sherman
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruceâ€”to which in fact he was once taken. Trying… — David Markson

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