Nick Carraway Describing Quotes

#1. I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.

Lionel Shriver

#2. Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.

Carolyn V. Hamilton

#4. I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

Topher Grace

#5. My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

Yngwie Malmsteen

#6. He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

Publilius Syrus

#7. I prefer eating to cooking.

Sania Mirza

#8. A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

Gene Wolfe

#9. Prince Vasili came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an ague.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.

Tim Kaine

#11. When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

#12. When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

Gary Bauer

#13. If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Thomas Aquinas