Quotes & Sayings About Gatsby's Death

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu. — David L. Katz

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even. — Elizabeth Reaser

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat. — Bob Cousy

I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death! — Tom Conrad

I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme park of my own design. Should Vowell World ever get enough investors, I'm going to stick my Tom Sawyer Island in Love and Death in the American Novel Land right between the Jay Gatsby Swimming Pool and Tom Joad's Dust Bowl Lanes, a Depression-themed bowling alley renting artfully worn-out shoes. — Sarah Vowell

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. — Andre Gide

A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman's work is never done. — Jean Little

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me. — F Scott Fitzgerald