Party In The Great Gatsby Quotes & Sayings

Architecture is definitely a political act. — Peter Eisenman

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. — Terry Pratchett

I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this. — Neel Mukherjee

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. — Veronica Roth

As a society we've progressed to a point where it is unacceptable behavior to knock someone down who is acting a fool. I teach my children to use their words when faced with a conflict. That's what civilized people do. All that is fine and good except for one small thing; we've enabled the fools ...
... What if people could expect a measure of instant justice when they were out of order? The acts of thoughtlessness would decline exponentially. If you give people license to be fools then you are left to deal with fools. However, if you put fools on notice then they'll be forced to snap to attention and act right or suffer the consequences. Think of it as an adult spanking. — Aaron Blaylock

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. — Christina Ricci

If wishes were fishes, even beggars would eat — Lili St. Crow

There just isn't a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There's just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn't quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year's episodes and Sunday night's conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode. — Hank Stuever

This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful. — Sarah Ockler

Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy. — G.K. Chesterton

You have to be careful around miracles, around extraordinary highs, because they're disruptive to your regular life...you have to cope when they end. — Anya Ulinich

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now. — Earl Monroe

She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it. — A.R. Rahman