Gatsby Byronic Hero Quotes

#1. I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Lynn Flewelling

#2. Jeez. Just over a week was all it took for my life to implode. It was some kind of record.

Lili St. Crow

#3. The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

Fritz Scholder

#4. This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#5. A figment who'd slipped through the cracks of history and been forgotten.

Kate Morton

#6. I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

Matthew Fox

#7. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

Julie Burchill

#8. It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them.

Sergio Garcia

#9. You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.

Shakira

#10. As a kid I didn't root for the bad guys.

Robert De Niro