Eckleburg Quotes

#1. Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. "God sees everything," repeated Wilson.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

Stephan Pastis

#3. What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright;

Thomas A Kempis

#4. How the fuck do I know that my better is anything more than the great big fat lie we tell ourselves to justify the slow fat nothing of our days.

Claire North

#5. When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Bette Davis

#6. We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Henry Ford

#7. One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

Woody Allen

#8. Learning from the success and failure of others is the fastest way to get smarter and wiser without a lot of pain.

Tren Griffin

#9. It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.

Mikhail Saakashvili

#11. As far as my own sexual orientation, I'm only seventeen years old and as of right now, I'm straight, but who knows what's to come?

Judith E. Snow

#12. Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.

Rachel Caine

#13. Time machine ... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back ... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!

Dane Cook

#14. Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

Peter Jurasik