Mr Nobody From Nowhere Gatsby Quotes

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up. ~ Jodi Picoult

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. ~ Andrew Davies

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy or Gatsby anymore, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He's just a man names Gatsby. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary. ~ Alison Bechdel

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

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains ~ Kami Garcia

A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it. ~ Holly LeCraw

What make Gatsby so damn great - like da book's title indicatin' - is dat unlike da rest of deez shallow rich folk, Gatsby actually believe in somethin': love, dawg. He build himself a new identity jus' for Daisy. Errybody else straight-up empty inside. ~ Sparky Sweets

Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream. ~ Azar Nafisi

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years? ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby. ~ Parul Wadhwa

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all
Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

She's got an indiscreet voice,' I remarked. 'It's full of - - ' I hesitated. 'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

My dark secret is I've always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It's a difficult thing to do. ~ Sarah Noffke

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced
or seemed to face
the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

It's Fitzgerald's thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent. ~ Maureen Corrigan

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children ~ Ron Rash

Nobody came to see me today. Nobody saw him arrive. Nobody saw him walk away. Nobody knows he's alive.Nobody knows when he comes and goes. Nobody seems to care. Nobody, take me away with you. Take me into your care. ~ J. Scott Savage

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on. ~ Don Mattingly

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character ... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember. ~ Edith Wharton

Nobody's got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like. ~ Linda Evans

You can't disturb a nobody with evidence he's a nobody. A nobody is not disturbed by anything significant. ~ Padgett Powell

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way. ~ Blake Shelton

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody? ~ Ned Vizzini

Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get into a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is!
But yesterday night I got quite a scare
I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there!
I called out and reached for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands,
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked.
I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
NOBODY'S GONE!! ~ Shel Silverstein

What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant Henry that was supposed to be a nice guy and all. I don't see how D.B. could hate the Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that. I mean, for instance, I don't see how he could like a phony like that and still like that one by Ring Lardner, or that other one he's so crazy about, The Great Gatsby. D.B. got sore when I said that, and said I was too young and all to appreciate it, but I don't think so. I told him I liked Ring Lardner and The Great Gatsby and all. I did, too. I was crazy about The Great Gatsby. Old Gatsby. Old sport. That killed me. ~ J.D. Salinger

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody! ~ Joshua Jackson

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball. ~ Merlin Olsen

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. ~ Mordecai Richler

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody. ~ Hans Rosling

Nobody or Nowhere? Fern: I'd rather be nobody at home than somebody somewhere else.
Ambrose: I'd rather be nowhere. Being nobody when you're expected to be somebody gets old.
Fern: How would you know? Have you been nobody?
Ambrose: Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail. ~ Amy Harmon

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! ~ Amity Gaige

When they make the movie of your life
they're going to have to ask you
to do your own stunts
because nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody
could pull off the same shit as you
and still come out alright ~ Bill Callahan

Nobody knows the trouble you've seen - and nobody wants to. ~ Helen Yglesias

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody. ~ L. Frank Baum

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness. ~ James Welch

Nobody. Mr nobody. Mr bones and mr had enough and mr arthur itis. Now get out and leave me alone. ~ David Almond

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if. ~ Ryan Tedder

Authors whose books were selected as ASEs were rewarded with a loyal readership of millions of men. Word spread quickly about the titles that were perennial favorites, even reaching the home front. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which was written in 1925, was considered a failure during Fitzgerald's lifetime. But when this book was printed as an ASE in October 1945, it won the hearts of an army of men. Their praise reverberated back home, and The Great Gatsby was rescued from obscurity and has since become an American literary classic. ~ Molly Guptill Manning

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them. ~ Peter Saunders

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it. ~ Michael Bloomberg

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what. ~ Bill Vaughan

A literary fetish is the new black ~ Danielle Ganek

forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you. ~ Baz Luhrmann

Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV ~ Morty

That way nobody feels exploited."
"Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?"
"I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing. ~ Margaret Atwood

the time is always right to do what is
R I G H T ~ Nobody!

Nobody can buy Jeff Greene. Nobody ever has. Nobody ever will. ~ Jeff Greene

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky. ~ Peter Higgs

Polyphemus stiffened. "Who said that?"
"Nobody!" Annabeth yelled.
That got exactly the reaction she'd been hoping for. The monster's face turned red with rage.
"Nobody!" Polyphemus yelled back. "I remember you!"
"You're too stupid to remember anybody," Annabeth taunted. "Much less Nobody. ~ Rick Riordan

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends. ~ Rebel Wilson

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody. ~ Glenn Danzig

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. ~ Elizabeth Warren

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody. ~ Whitney Houston

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. ~ Franz Schubert

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixteen." At the time , I thought he was patronizing me, that it was going to be my favorite book forever and ever, amen. But he was right. As an adult, I'm more of a Gatsby girl-more tragic, more sad, just as interested in what America costs as what it has to offer. ~ Sarah Vowell

Nolo:Nobody beats the TEKU!
Markie:You mean nobody but the Metal Maniacs.
Nolo: I mean NOBODY! ~ Hot Wheels Acceleracers

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. ~ Epictetus

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. ~ B.B. King

Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. ~ Paul Watson

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me. ~ Linda Hunt

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ~ Harold Macmillan

Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans. ~ Paul Stanley

the only one
with you, there is no pretending. you see me like nobody sees me. you know me like nobody knows me. you accept me like nobody accepts me. ~ Cyrus Parker

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that. ~ K'naan

The Great Gatsby' [ ... ] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [ ... ] ~ J.D. Salinger

Taking a deep breath, I head back to Gatsby's to find Joy. ~ Andrew J. Keir

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ~ Louis L'Amour

Nobody knows what to do when there's a tragedy. Nobody practices for it. ~ Jean Thompson

How beautiful she loked, but there was nobody to see, nobody. ~ Katherine Mansfield

..Meanwhile, remember this: nobody lived happily. Nobody outlived the ever-after. ~ Meena Kandasamy

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides. ~ Samuel Smiles

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. ~ Etgar Keret

Somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody. ~ Albert Camus

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. ~ Kirk Douglas

He took nobody by surprise; there was nobody to take. ~ Aldous Huxley