Quotes About Gatsby's Library

#1. They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus

John Wesley

#3. Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

Winston Graham

#4. For one thing, he wasn't sure what kind of small talk to make with a guy who'd recently come back from Tartarus. Catch that last episode of Doctor Who? Oh, right. You were trudging through the Pit of Eternal Damnation!

Rick Riordan

#5. The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

Steven Wright

#6. Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Robert McKee

#7. Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Bill Cosby

#8. Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.

Scott Spencer

#9. Her assignment had been to write a simple Sumerian code for preserving a jar of pickled eggs. (To the programming-inclined reader, this is the magical equivalent of "HELLO WORLD.")

Sorin Suciu

#10. If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

David Lloyd-Jones

#11. Use fear as a counselor not a captor.

Todd Stocker

#12. Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

Richelle Mead

#13. To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.

Common

#14. Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.

Nevill Drury

#15. I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

Kid Rock

#16. Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!

John G. Stumpf