Great Gatsby Speakeasy Quotes

#1. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In

Claire Messud

#2. I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

Elie Wiesel

#4. Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

Ezra Pound

#5. I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

Mick Jagger

#6. A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number.

George R R Martin

#7. Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Susan Sontag

#8. I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

Katherine Jenkins

#9. The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

Karlie Kloss

#11. A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

Gina B. Nahai

#12. He told me once that he didn't fear conscription as much as everyone else because the dozen bloodthirsty girls he was leaving behind were far more dangerous.

Victoria Aveyard

#13. Walls tagged with graffiti (one such piece of tagging: a stencil of a familiar Sith Lord's helmet with the phrase beneath it reading VADER LIVES).

Chuck Wendig

#14. My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

Robert Crais