Jay Gatsby Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'd let the dummy comment slide, partly because I felt like a dummy and partly because I couldn't think of an eloquent way to say asshole. — Michael Stark

Such injunctions were burned into us, for Mommy felt strongly about proper behavior; about sitting with a straight back, knees together, legs crossed at the ankle; about walking with shoulders back, head high. 'A person meeting you for the first time judges you by how you walk, how you spreak, and how you're dressed,' she told us. On our Sunday excursions to Asbury Park, she would watch for an example . . . 'See that?' she's say. 'I don't know that man from Adam, but I can tell from his walk he's stupid, dumb, a no account.' Then she'd point to another man. 'I don't know him either, but that's an educated person. His back's straight, he's walking straight, not slumping and slouching and oozing along'. — Yvonne S. Thornton

I wasn't sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others. — Janet Evanovich

The rigorousness of restraint is other than the one of the "exactitude" of a loose, indifferent "reasoning" which belongs equally to everyone and whose results are compelling within the sphere of its own claims to certainty. Such results are compelling, however, only because the claim to truth is content with the correctness that comes from deduction and from insertion into a regulated and calculable order. — Martin Heidegger

This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations. — Paulo Costanzo

Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle. — Wanda Coleman

Bundesbahnangestelltenwitwe (a widow of a federal railway employee), — Bill Bryson

Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere. — Masaaki Imai

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart. — Sri Chinmoy

Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind. — Roald Dahl

The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity. — Sherry K. White

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar. — John D. Rockefeller

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty — Danny Hillis

The thinkers in their youth are almost always very lonely creatures. . . . The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most richly fed. - WILLIAM JAMES1 — Niall Ferguson

Sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character ...
-annabelle granger — Susan Elizabeth Phillips