Gatsby Party Guest Quotes & Sayings

To tell you the truth, sleepless nights are as unusual for me as sumo wrestlers who look good in berets. — Haruki Murakami

Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful. — Tori Amos

Nobody gets outta this life alive no matter what they give up. — Terence Audette

The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in harmony with the climate, and the fertility of the land, and the humble spirit of the farmers. — Marina Lewycka

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? — Margaret Smith

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard

I broke with the academic style because I decided that life is very short, very mysterious, and I didn't have the time to waste with academics. I would only say things in the most honesty manner. If people like it, fine. If not, I can't help that. Today I couldn't write academically even if I wanted to! (Rubem Alves, p. 188) — Mev Puleo

One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country. — Howard Zinn

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again". — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it. — Kevin Sampsell

I actually live very, very simply. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

in this dangerous time when shadows cast shadows of their own, when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face. Weaving — Dean Koontz