In a good literary memoir, you're basically rendering the essence of the experience. Whether someone...
JOYCE JOHNSON I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came int...
JOYCE JOHNSON I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.
JOYCE JOHNSON In my job I see a lot of kids from single-parent households. I understand the struggles they have as...
JOYCE JOHNSON It's good for seniors to eat fresh fruit and vegetables, ... We have a big promotion in Mason County...
JOYCE JOHNSON The Communist Workers Party had a racial and economic analysis that was all too true. We've seen thi...
JOYCE JOHNSON I'm thankful I had a home to get to. A lot of people, they don't have anything. The Lord spared Algi...
JOYCE JOHNSON We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guard...
JOYCE JOHNSON In the age that I am, in my entire adult life that I have been lobbying for reproductive freedom--wh...
JOYCE JOHNSON They may be helping some people. But for the most part it's all miscommunication.
JOYCE JOHNSON He came for I don't know what political reason,
JOYCE JOHNSON I just thank God we're in a better place,
JOYCE JOHNSON It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like...
JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can...
JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if...
JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity.
JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo...
JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped...
JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han...
JOYCE BROTHERS Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabi...
JOYCE BROTHERS Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeli...
JOYCE BROTHERS No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
JOYCE BROTHERS Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
JOYCE BROTHERS Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they...
JOYCE BROTHERS God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barel...
JOYCE MEYER The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the...
JOYCE BROTHERS A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
JOYCE MAYNARD We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
JOYCE MEYER I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors...
RACHEL JOYCE Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourse...
RACHEL JOYCE This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over ag...
RACHEL JOYCE In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that H...
RACHEL JOYCE My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remem...
RACHEL JOYCE I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in l...
RACHEL JOYCE The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on ...
RACHEL JOYCE My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he w...
RACHEL JOYCE I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut nove...
RACHEL JOYCE I have written stories since I was a child.
RACHEL JOYCE I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real ...
RACHEL JOYCE For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
RACHEL JOYCE I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
RACHEL JOYCE I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
RACHEL JOYCE Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find...
RACHEL JOYCE Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself ou...
RACHEL JOYCE I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our B...
RACHEL JOYCE I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walke...
RACHEL JOYCE We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'H...
RACHEL JOYCE I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: ...
RACHEL JOYCE My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him w...
RACHEL JOYCE I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic...
RACHEL JOYCE The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many y...
RACHEL JOYCE On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag...
RACHEL JOYCE I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I ...
JOYCE MEYER But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.
RACHEL JOYCE It was not a life, if lived without love.
RACHEL JOYCE Buy a book in brown paper
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being...
JOYCE GIRAUD Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, ...
JOYCE GIRAUD I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.
JOYCE GIRAUD My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell ev...
JOYCE GIRAUD I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were li...
JOYCE GIRAUD I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over C...
JOYCE GIRAUD Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful...
JOYCE GIRAUD In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
JOYCE GIRAUD I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderfu...
JOYCE GIRAUD I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we b...
JOYCE GIRAUD I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more vol...
JOYCE GIRAUD In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'past...
JOYCE GIRAUD My husband and I are in preproduction of three movies, a Latin show, and a children's animation....
JOYCE GIRAUD 'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a rep...
JOYCE GIRAUD I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I creat...
JOYCE GIRAUD I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My o...
JOYCE GIRAUD Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care a...
JOYCE GIRAUD I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand.
JOYCE GIRAUD I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies,...
JOYCE GIRAUD I honestly eat chocolate all day long. I do realize how blessed I am to be able to eat what I want a...
JOYCE GIRAUD I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.
JOYCE GIRAUD I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born...
JOYCE GIRAUD I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.
JOYCE DIDONATO The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It w...
WILLIAM JOYCE I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like m...
WILLIAM JOYCE We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus a...
JOYCE MEYER There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's wh...
JOYCE MEYER Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of ...
JAMES JOYCE Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giant...
JAMES JOYCE To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life.
JAMES JOYCE Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can...
JAMES JOYCE I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink ...
JOYCE MEYER The horizon changes but the sun does not.
JOYCE RACHELLE When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and no...
JAMES JOYCE Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an ...
JOYCE MEYER The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is...
JOYCE KILMER He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCE Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.
JOYCE RACHELLE If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
JOYCE RACHELLE Not all friends know they have lost you.
JOYCE RACHELLE History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCE One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
JOYCE MEYER Today is a brand new beginning for me!
JOYCE MEYER If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and...
JOYCE MEYER Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is ...
JOYCE CARY Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
JOYCE BROTHERS A nation is the same people living in the same place.
JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you...
JOYCE CHAPMAN The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
JOYCE MAYNARD Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
JOYCE CARY A tide began to surge beneath the calm surface of Stephen's friendliness.
This race and this cou...
JAMES JOYCE I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Pa...
JAMES JOYCE I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer be...
JAMES JOYCE An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCE Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not.
JAMES JOYCE Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
JOYCE BROTHERS If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you d...
JOYCE CHAPMAN Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her...
JOYCE BROTHERS The best proof of love is trust.
JOYCE BROTHERS Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his ar...
JAMES JOYCE If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written ...
JOYCE BROTHERS For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a w...
JOYCE CARY He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the...
JAMES JOYCE While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robbe...
JAMES JOYCE Heart of my heart, were it more,
More would be laid at your feet.
JAMES JOYCE There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fo...
JOYCE KILMER A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry ...
JOYCE CAREY Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
JOYCE BROTHERS Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover...
JAMES JOYCE I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give i...
JOYCE CARY All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inc...
JAMES JOYCE Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in m...
JAMES JOYCE You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wa...
JOYCE GRENFELL Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like sa...
JAMES JOYCE The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in ...
JOYCE CARY For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spiri...
JOYCE CARY An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavi...
JOYCE BROTHERS There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable...
JOYCE BROTHERS Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think w...
JOYCE BROTHERS I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest <...
JOYCE KILMER Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted pers...
JOYCE BROTHERS Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
JOYCE BROTHERS The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the p...
JOYCE BROTHERS God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would den...
JOYCE CARY Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The h...
JOYCE BROTHERS Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
JOYCE BROTHERS When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respec...
JAMES JOYCE What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put...
JAMES JOYCE A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
JOYCE CAREY You cannot eat your cake and have it.
JAMES JOYCE Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
JOYCE GRENFELL If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should se...
JOYCE BROTHERS Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted per...
JOYCE BROTHERS ...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up a...
JOYCE PARK The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork...
JAMES JOYCE I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday o...
JAMES JOYCE A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having ...
BRENDA JOYCE Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
JOYCE MEYER A good home must be made, not bought.
JOYCE MAYNARD When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and eve...
JOYCE MEYER No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no...
JOYCE MEYER Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sens...
JOYCE APPLEBY In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend m...
JOYCE MEYER Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
JOYCE MEYER A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
JOYCE BROTHERS Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted ...
JOYCE BROTHERS At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyon...
JOYCE MEYER I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of...
JAMES JOYCE Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of ge...
JOYCE MEYER Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no...
JOYCE MEYER I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to ...
JOYCE MEYER I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning...
JOYCE MEYER Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parentin...
JOYCE MEYER Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, mi...
JOYCE MEYER The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
JAMES JOYCE Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgme...
JOYCE MEYER My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the re...
JOYCE GIRAUD Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
JAMES JOYCE I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries argu...
JAMES JOYCE A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
JAMES JOYCE Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
JAMES JOYCE God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
JAMES JOYCE My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
JAMES JOYCE Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ...
JAMES JOYCE I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
JAMES JOYCE He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCE There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
JAMES JOYCE Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork,...
JAMES JOYCE When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
JAMES JOYCE Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither di...
JAMES JOYCE