Great Gatsby Failure American Dream Quotes

#1. When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.

Elizabeth Aston

#2. It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

Arundhati Roy

#3. I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don't know if I'll live that long.

Meryl Streep

#4. I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.

Jean Louis

#5. I have never voted for a tax increase.

Marco Rubio

#6. Tattoos are my way of expressing myself without the need for words.

Jay Park

#7. My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.

Junot Diaz

#8. My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

Misty Copeland

#9. The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

Suzi Quatro

#10. Dreams don't get done until they are due.

Richie Norton

#11. There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.

Jurnee Smollett

#12. Discouragement is the opposite of faith. It is Satan's device to thwart the work of God in your life.

Billy Graham

#13. a girl in her twenties who might have been pretty had she refrained from drawing her eyebrows on with a marker.

Tosca Lee