Carraway Quotes

#1. If finding a woman in your bed is so distressing, magus, you should rethink the direction your life's taken.

Brandon Nolta

#2. Emotions can frequently hurt and cripple, until you begin to grasp that you are their source and thus their master.

Mike Dooley

#3. I share the same advice that my mom gave me - stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.

Jessica Alba

#4. Something in his leisurely move- ments and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to deter- mine what share was his of our local heavens.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.

Ernest Holmes

#7. If people can't tell when I'm being an idiot and when I'm being a genius, perhaps they'll assume my blunders are brilliant political maneuvers.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

C.S. Lewis

#9. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

#10. It's a strange city ... filled with things that are not obvious.

A.M. Homes

#11. People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

Anthony Foxx

#12. Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Clive James

#13. I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

Anne Sexton

#14. A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.

Marcus Buckingham

#15. Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy or Gatsby anymore, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.

F Scott Fitzgerald