Greatgatsby Quotes & Sayings

A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them. — Deborah Lipstadt

I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And as for the sheer writing, it's astonishing. [About The Great Gatsby] — Maxwell Perkins

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. — Ken Hensley

I had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn't given a damn. — Cory Doctorow

I came to the Zephyr not as magic's slave, but so I can leap into oblivion. — Einat Segal

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist. — Paul Gambaccini

Excellence is excellence's only companion. — Patrick Rothfuss

Successful career means a happy and balanced life. — Deepak Mehra

What happens when you narrow your definition to what is convenient, or what is fashionable, or what is expected, is dishonesty by silence. — Audre Lorde

That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. I said it didn't make any difference to me and that we could if she wanted to. Then she wanted to know if I loved her. I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't love her. "So why marry me, then?" she said. I explained to her that it didn't really matter and that if she wanted to, we could get married. — Albert Camus

No. I'll call you Monday after class." Morgan slid of his stool, gazed seriously at Dan, then bent forward to bestow a chaste kiss to his cheek. Danny watched him leave, bemused.

Griff snickered. "Ohh, Danny. A cute boy kissed you. Are you ever going to wash that cheek again? — Lee Brazil

We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me. — Allan Savory

The amount of meaning you get into a sentence, the dimensions and intensity of the impression you make a paragraph carry, are most extraordinary.... You once told me you were not a natural writer - my God! You have plainly mastered the craft, of course; but you needed far more than craftsmanship for this. [about The Great Gatsby] — Maxwell Perkins

I tend to like dry humor. — Dan Scanlon

To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration. — Kingsley Amis

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity. — William Shatner