Ulysses Quotes

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

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

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

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.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

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!

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 know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

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, it's official. The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. For the first time since Ulysses S. Grant was president, America is not the leading economic power on the planet.

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

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

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

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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.