Greater The Gatsby Quotes & Sayings

If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being. — Jacob Lawrence

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense. — Kevin Yoder

Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon. — Hassan Nasrallah

Almost it seemed that the words took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him; and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject. — Michael Milken

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position. — Aleksandar Hemon

The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. — William S. Burroughs

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing. — Ayn Rand

Path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light. — John Crowley

I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing
THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK IF YOU HAVE ONE)
A greater Gatsby
(Written with the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Prophet of THE JAZZ AGE) — Ernest Hemingway,