Quotes & Sayings About Jay Gatsby's Dream

I need you to know that the best place in the world will always be next to you. I'm there until you send me away. Brian — Jolene Perry

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility. — Newton N. Minow

They all went out by a private door and found themselves in a smaller but gorgous room. The Prince tapped on the table and instantly two menials in red tunics appeared.
Bring three glasses of champaigne commanded the prince and some ices he added majestikally. The goods appeared as if by majic and the prince drew out a cigar case and passed it round.
One grows weary of Court Life he remarked.
Ah yes agreed the earl.
It upsets me said the prince lapping up his strawberry ice all I want is peace and quiut and a little fun and here I am tied down to this life he said taking off his crown being royal has many painfull drawbacks. — Daisy Ashford

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting. — Shemar Moore

Is he about to become that man, that modern fool of a certain age, who finds himself pausing by shop windows to stare in at the saxophones or the motorbikes, or driven to find himself a mistress of his daughter's age? — Ian McEwan

Look, all I'm asking you to consider is that you have the power to change things. What if the reason you were given that power is to defend those without any? Both from external and internal harm. Like a shieldmaiden for your people. — Mary Weber

It's quite hard. Making pies, I mean. You wouldn't think it, but there's quite a lot to the process. Bread is easy. Soup is easy. Pudding is easy. But pie is complicated. It's something you never realize until you try it for yourself. — Patrick Rothfuss

Must. Soothe. The hottie. — Linda Kage

If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate
which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Daughter of a whore," he muttered. Khalid froze, his knuckles turning a perilous shade of white. Shahrzad grabbed his arm and dragged him away. She could see the muscles ticking along his jaw. "You know, you have quite a temper," she remarked after they had cleared some distance. He said nothing. "Khalid?" "Is that kind of disrespect . . . normal?" Shahrzad lifted a shoulder. "It's not normal. But it's not unexpected. It's the curse of being a woman," she joked in a morose manner. "It's obscene. He deserves to be flogged. — Renee Ahdieh

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. — Douglas Rushkoff

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. — William Shakespeare

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bark be my limbs my hair be leaf
Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver — Susan Howe