Quotes About T.j Eckleburg

#1. Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. "God sees everything," repeated Wilson.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

Cat Stevens

#3. I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

Asghar Farhadi

#4. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.

Cora Carmack

#5. War does one good - it teaches people geography.

Will Durant

#6. There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

Reza Aslan

#7. The weakest goes to the wall.

William Shakespeare

#8. I can think of no better way to die than as a martyr for my race and my way of life," Smyrt said. "And if the Colonial Union dies with us, then I will welcome its diluted population as our honor guard into hell.

John Scalzi

#9. A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Elizabeth I

#10. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

#11. For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

Tyler Cowen

#12. My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

Bo Jackson

#13. You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

Alan Jackson

#14. The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity ... then you are going to be surprised.-1985

Nancy Pelosi

#15. One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past ...

Storm Jameson

#16. There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

Robert Black