Great Gatsby Movie Quotes & Sayings

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist. — Pierre Bayle

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong. — Steve Erickson

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. — Idries Shah

I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything. — Gail Collins

I have known some wonderful men. — Gloria Allred

Her words travel directly to my dick, passing "Go" on the way. Fuck. This calls for - what did she call them? SHOUTY CAPITALS. — E.L. James

Danders Anders squealed with joy. The most malodorous sound in the world. — Justine Larbalestier

I drove all night, northeast, and once again I felt it was literature I had been confronting these past days, the archetypes of the dismal mystery, sons and daughters of the archetypes, images that could not be certain which of two confusions held less terror, their own or what their own might become if it ever faced the truth. I drove at insane speeds. — Don DeLillo

Maybe you aren't ready yet. I get it. This is a new situation, you want time to explore it, play with a block or two, eat some Play-Doh. I get it. Go wild. But one day, I'm going to make you mine. — Bratniss Everclean

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day. — Bryan Ferry

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn — Robert Frost

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. — Francis Ford Coppola

I love him with every ounce of my being, and I know that I always will. — H.M. Ward

If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream, — Yuichiro Miura

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet — Judith Thurman

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. — George Orwell