Analyze Gatsby Quotes & Sayings

He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That's what it's like to be rich.
Here's what it's like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can't find a job because there aren't any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can't possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don't go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you'll see what you can scrape up.
Which is this: nothing. — Tom Franklin

It's not always easy, but it's usually simple. — Faydra D. Fields

Even if we wanted to remake higher education," assert professors and administrators alike, "we don't think there is anything that can replace what we already have." Of course, the fact that in the past everyone claimed "this time is different," does not rule out the possibility that this time really is different. — Richard A. Demillo

We have joined the caravan, you might say, at a certain point; we will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in a lifetime see all that we would like to see or learn all that we hunger to know. — Loren Eiseley

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high. — Paul Wolfowitz

Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through. — Lisa Unger

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others. — Dalai Lama

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films. — Eddie Marsan

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp ... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become. — Viktor E. Frankl

If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually. — Frederick Lenz

When the name was in the room, it came to pass that the murderer, abashed, opened up, and there sprang forth, like a Glory, from his pitiable fragments, an altar on which there lay, in the roses, a woman of light and flesh.

The alter undulated on a foul mud into which it sank: the murderer. — Jean Genet