Quotes of: Ulysses Keyword

[last lines] Penny Wharvey McGill: Well, we need that ring. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well that ring is at the bottom of a pretty durn big lake. Penny Wharvey McGill: Uh-uh. Ulysses Everett McGill: A 9,000 hectare lake. Penny Wharvey McGill: I don't ca...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

So many miracles have not yet happened.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Pete: You miserable little snake! You stole from my kin! Ulysses Everett McGill: Who was fixin' to betray us. Pete: You didn't know that at the time. Ulysses Everett McGill: So I borrowed it until I did know. Pete: That don't make no sense! Ulysses E...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us. Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I'm surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar. Delmar O'Donnell: But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed. Ulysses Everett McGil...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. 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 by it.

Roddy Doyle

Pomade Vendor: I can get the part from Bristol. It'll take two weeks, here's your pomade. Ulysses Everett McGill: Two weeks? That don't do me no good. Pomade Vendor: Nearest Ford auto man's Bristol. Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don't want this ...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: .

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!" thought Flora.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are the ever-expanding universe to me.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

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 isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

Raymond Queneau

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace