Quotes & Sayings About James Gatz In The Great Gatsby

Great. Not only will I be a hairy bush, but I'll look as if I'm about to catch fire, I'll be the burning bush. — Addison Moore

Something wonderful has happened to me. I was carried up into the seventh heaven. There all the gods sat assembled. By special grace I was granted the favor of a wish. "Will you," said Mercury, "have youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the most beautiful maiden, or any of the other glories we have in the chest? Choose, but only one thing." For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed myself to the gods as follows: "Most honorable contemporaries, I choose this one thing, that I may always have the laugh on my side." Not one of the gods said a word, on the contrary, they all began to laugh. Hence, I concluded that my request was granted, and found that the gods knew how to express themselves with great taste; for it would hardly have been suitable for them to answer gravely: "It is granted thee. — Soren Kierkegaard

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea. — Isaac Asimov

Call me close-minded, but hearing my girlfriend talk like a five-thousand-year-old male god was not on my top ten list of Things I Find Attractive. — Rick Riordan

In life, we all have a second chance but it's what we do with those chances that counts. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. — Claude Fayette Bragdon

Lady Maccon."
"By George, Boots! How the deuce can you possibly tell that there is Lady Maccon?" queried the other top-hated gentleman.
"Who else would be standing in the middle of a street on full-moon night with a raging ruddy fire behind her, waving a parasol about?"
"Good point, good point. — Gail Carriger

...I try to laugh at whatever life brings... — Ani DiFranco

Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Mean is not crazy, it is merely mean. — Laurell K. Hamilton

He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to act in next. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. — Timothy Zahn