Quotes About New York In The Great Gatsby

#1. If your child has a disability, a problem of any kind, do not become so wrapped up with the problem that you neglect the child. Your child needs your unconditional love far more than anything else - far more than any medical care, no matter how necessary. Far

D. Ross Campbell

#2. Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.

Watchman Nee

#4. I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Rose McGowan

#5. Dont let anyone tell you what you are ever- that way you never run the danger of becoming anything but what you believe in.

Pete Wentz

#6. Once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing
they begin to believe in anything.

Alistair Begg

#7. I'm assuming Mona did something I need to know about. Tell me." Be a tattletale who whined to people's Primes? "No." "No?" Knox echoed with disbelief. Evidently, he wasn't denied things often. Well, Harper did like to introduce people to new experiences. It was more of a calling, really.

Suzanne Wright

#8. If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

Leonard Cohen

#9. I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen.

Christina Baker Kline

#10. For years, my life has been flat. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I've never admitted it before. I'm not depressed, I don't think. That's not what I'm saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It's been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.

Iain Reid

#11. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

Elvis Costello

#14. Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.

L.P. Hartley

#15. Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

Garth Risk Hallberg