Quotes & Sayings About Jay Gatsby's Money

I watched as Humphrey Bogart's character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman's character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn't. I didn't care. I had enough problems of my own. — Graeme Simsion

nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance. — Douglas Preston

-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow. — Barbara Sleigh

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations. — Hazrat Ali

No Alchymy to saving. — George Herbert

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He felt whole, self-sufficient, felt his life had at last opened up and that now nothing stood between him and the future's infinite possibilities. — Leonard Gardner

I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been. — David Blackwell

The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated. — Chuck Klosterman

Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment. — Joan Larkin

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you. — Andrew Smith

Sometimes you take all my words away from me. — Amie Kaufman

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. — Samuel Johnson

I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions. — Enki Bilal

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are — Curnonsky