Gatsby Nervous Quotes & Sayings

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27) — Paul Tobin

After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home. — Pankaj Mishra

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Now that you have the knowledge of the gospel, you're called to do better. — Mike Glenn

You go to bed different ... tossing and turning is the norm ... you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of the depression you are living in and your prayers to God seem empty because you are sooo very tired of telling him the same thing over and over again ... if we are really being real ... there may even be moments after impact you forget how to pray ... maybe you don't even want to. — Erica Stone

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. — Nancy Meyers

You're the only boy who talks about clothes," Solveig said. "I know," I said. — Karl Ove Knausgard

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters. — C.S. Lewis

And I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves. — Iain Banks

Psychology researchers now claim that it is important for babies to learn how to stop crying by themselves. Fortunately, many parents still prefer to comfort their babies. If they didn't, we might find ourselves living in a society of very solitary people, who had learned to control thier distress rather than to find strength through sharing it. — Naomi Stadlen

To write for one's bread and to write for mere pastime are very different matters. — William Le Queux

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard. — David Letterman