Quotes & Sayings About Gatsby's Looks

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The church was an international institution long before globalization. — Shane Claiborne

What business, said Priscilla's look more plainly than any words, what business had people to walk into other people's cottages in such a manner? She stood quite still, and scrutinized Mrs. Morrison with the questioning expression she used to find so effective in Kunitz days when confronted by a person inclined to forget which, exactly, was his proper place. But Mrs. Morrison knew nothing of Kunitz, and the look lost half its potency without its impressive background. Besides, the lady was not one to notice things so slight as looks; to keep her in her proper place you would have needed sledge-hammers. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is that fandom doesn't bother with the pretenses. They're just there to have a good time. The second difference is the dress code - the ensembles at a fan convention tend to be considerably more novel. — Jim Butcher

It's true what they say, you know. First fuck. First love. First kill. You never forget your first. — Nenia Campbell

I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't. — Cameron Mackintosh

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers. — Mason Cooley

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit. — Keira Knightley

This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution. — Diet Eman

He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least of which is the fact that no one with eyes will see how and where he gets lost and lonely and is torn limb from limb by some cave-Minotaur of conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. — Paul Harris

She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch. — Jill Shalvis

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary. — Mahatma Gandhi

Control people's sexuality and you control them. After all, if people allow you to dictate how they behave in the privacy of their own bedrooms, there is very little that they will not allow you to control. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson