Great Gatsby Flapper Quotes & Sayings

Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous. — Melody Mayer

When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural. — Tom Courtenay

I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad. — Grace Lee Boggs

I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology. — Jonah Peretti

And, he added with a laugh, you don't ever notice your oxygen until it's gone: something goes wrong with the HVAC, even for fifteen minutes, and people are ready to riot. — Teju Cole

Denis Eady was the son of Michael Eady, the ambitious Irish grocer, whose suppleness and effrontery had given Starkfield its first notion of "smart" business methods, and whose new brick store testified to the success of the attempt. His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood. Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping. — Edith Wharton

Defeat is curable;
failure is reversible. — Matshona Dhliwayo

On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it. — Marsha Hinds

Now it's my turn," Riley said. "What's your first name? Where'd you grow up? Who's your favorite Batman? — Janet Evanovich

You told me you wanted to marry Seth's bed, and then you told me you'd marry me if I asked. After that, you started to-"
"Enough," I groaned, wanting to crawl under the blankets. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross. — C.J. Mahaney