Quotes About West Egg

#1. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God - a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. My office is my tour bus.

Drake

#3. The dose makes the poison...

Paracelsus

#4. You might not think it sounds like much of a disguise, but I know a thing or two about people. The world notices pretty, well-dressed young women. And it tries real hard not to see the unattractive, sloppy ones. If you're bad enough, you get the thousand-yard stare that slides right off you.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it.

Toni Morrison

#6. I told your daughter that she is like a rose." " True enough," said Lorenzo Daza "but one with too many thorns.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt.

Holland Roden

#8. We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.

Richard Grimes

#9. I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

Rosie Perez