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Quotes About Rebellion

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!
~ James Joyce
You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning.
~ James Joyce
Suck it yourself, sugarstick!
~ James Joyce
Enigmas hastiados de su tiranía: tiranos, dispuestos a ser destronados
~ James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
~ James Joyce
Achdung! Pozor! Attenshune! Vikeroy Besights Smucky Yung Pigeschoolies. Tri Paisdinernes Eventyr Med Lochlanner Fathach I Fiounnisgehaven. Bannalanna Bangs Ballyhooly Out Of Her Buddaree Of A Bullavogue.
~ James Joyce
He taps his brow.) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.
~ James Joyce
Cat's away the mice will play.
~ James Joyce
Hic cubat edilis. Apud libertinam parvulam.
~ James Joyce
Maybe YOU should suck my fuckin' dick. Then we'll see who's GAY.
~ James Kochalka
young people...who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of others.
~ James Lee Burke
If you're wired a certain way, you'll always be in morion, clicking to your own rhythm, all of it in four-four time, avoiding convention and predictability and control as you would a sickness, the whole world waiting for you like an enormous dance pavilion lit by colored lights and surrounded with palm trees. I'm not talking about the dirty boogie. The music of the spheres is right outside your bedroom window.
~ James Lee Burke
At age nineteen I did not want to accept the possibility that a man's murder could be treated with the social significance of a hangnail that had been snipped off someone's finger.
~ James Lee Burke
We don't care what people say, rock and roll is here to stay,'" he said. "That's from Danny and the Juniors, the greatest single line in the history of music.
~ James Lee Burke
If you get your ticket ripped in half, you do it in hot blood, and you do not go gently into that good night.
~ James Lee Burke
We don't care what people say, rock and roll is here to stay.
~ James Lee Burke
No, I ain't. I'm shit and nails and all kinds of bad news.
~ James Lee Burke
This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.
~ James Lileks
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.
~ James Lovegrove
I refuse to live my life under terms dictated by the Empire.
~ James Luceno
In part, the deep-space mobile battle station was meant to put an end to harassments of any sort, whether driven by greed, political dissent, or revenge for acts committed during the Clone Wars or since. Once everyone in the galaxy grasped the weapon's capabilities, once the fear of Imperial reprisal took hold, discontent would cease to be a problem.
~ James Luceno
Don't you know? After she's been Mr. Hannen's candy kid? The one that was going to New York and play the pyanner so they'd all be hollering for her? You think she's going to see them people now, and just be Veda? Not her. She's the queen, or she don't play. She ain't giving no party, and you ain't either." "I've simply got to do something." "Can't you leave her alone?
~ James M. Cain
Are you insinuating that my daughter is a snake?" "No—is a coloratura soprano, is much worse. A little snake, love mamma, do what papa tells, maybe, but a coloratura soprano, love nobody but own goddam self. Is son-bitch-bast', worse than all a snake in a world. Madame, you leave dees girl alone.
~ James M. Cain
describing the Confederate army as a "dark, rebellious host.
~ James M. McPherson