Gatsby Outsider Quotes & Sayings

Speech is how we convey our thoughts. Literature is how we convey our civilization." Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton. — Bernie Worrell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people. — Walter Winchell

If there are gods, they made sheep so wolves could eat mutton, and they made the weak for the strong to play with. — George R R Martin

Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows. — Jaggi Vasudev

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal. — Julian Bond

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. — Sigmund Freud

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. — Paul Volcker

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare. — Lawrence Wright

What interests me is the experience of ordinary people. To tell you the truth, although I can repeat certain dates, statistics, and so on, what I am really curious about is what happens to ordinary men, women, and children in extraordinary times. — Jacqueline Winspear

He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him. — Bernard Malamud

A pure white puppy followed on the girl's heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway. — Kit Alloway

The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects. — Jon Steel

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz. — Paul Desmond