Top 1200 Great Gatsby Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

He has a great pass, great vision, great shot, great everything.

Magny is a tough test. Magny is well-rounded, has great endurance. He's got great boxing and great reach, but he doesn't have great angles. I have better movement than him and I feel that's definitely an advantage.

I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great.

I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.

America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.

It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.

I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.

Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

I've had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because 'Lipstick' was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.

To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He's a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.