Quotes About Gatsby's Parties From The Great Gatsby

#1. See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

Evan Dando

#2. When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

George Gobel

#3. There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Gail Sheehy

#4. Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.

Alexander MacLaren

#5. The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#6. Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

John Stuart Mill

#7. People in the real world envy footballers. It is a fabulous life with rewards they can only dream of stuck in offices and factories doing jobs they hate.

P.J. Davitt

#8. The glory of God is the human person fully alive.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#9. The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

Joni Mitchell

#10. Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Samuel Johnson

#11. I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

Martin Scorsese

#12. I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

Christopher Vokes

#13. Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Siri Hustvedt