A Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates
American - Writer
Born: June 16, 1938

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

Beatrice Sparks

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

Lance Loud

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Dean Koontz

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Eckhart Tolle

I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

Dolores Hitchens

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

Vladimir Nabokov

I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.

James Bobin

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

Emma McLaughlin

My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes

Les Paul

Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.

James Bobin

Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

Jonathan Edwards

It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.

Wayne Grudem

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

Meryl Davis

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.