Quotes About Valley Of Ashes In The Great Gatsby

#1. One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

T. Harv Eker

#2. If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

T Bone Burnett

#3. But in the early 1900s, the medical profession began to promote the health benefits of tanning. Workers were increasingly moving into factories where complexions grew pallid, as the upper classes spent more time outside playing sports.

Anonymous

#4. In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.

Mona Simpson

#5. When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Isabella Rossellini

#6. The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

Gustav Landauer

#7. More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

Mitch McConnell

#8. I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Antonio Tabucchi

#9. It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Karen Bass

#10. Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.

Erik Larson

#11. There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.

Gabrielle Roth

#12. I like athletic men, but not like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he's gorgeous. A guy's got to be sexy, optimistic, like to have a good time.

Terry Farrell

#13. I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.

Robert Morse

#14. This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.

Karine Vanasse

#16. Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

Elliott Carter