Jay Gatsby House Quotes & Sayings

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness. — Thomas A Kempis

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home. — Zoroaster

What is the why behind everything you do? — Jack Canfield

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the qu icksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires. — Anton Strout

I invited him over and he stayed forever. I feed him all my bread, the old peppers turned to mush & fluorescent mold, the chicken thighs unthawed & boneless. He ask for more so I give him my left leg. He ask for more & I give him my lungs & lips. More still, and there goes my bladder. He eats it all, all of me, eats the whole damn house, & I live forever in him or maybe it's the other way around. I swallowed. I swallowed him whole & didn't even notice him thrashing inside me. — Danez Smith

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form. — Julian Barnes

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. — Morley Safer

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' — Paul Dano

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies. — Linda Grant

The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself. — Clint Eastwood

But he knew that he was in Daisy's house by a colossal accident. However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders. So he made the most of his time. He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously - eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand — F Scott Fitzgerald

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday. — Gerard Way