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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Faster Quotes

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning –

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 9, the final paragraphs of the novel focus on the struggle of humans to achieve their goals and realize their dreams. The green light is a metaphor for hope, especially for the future.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

– Gustave Flaubert

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

– Idi Amin

Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

– Jean Cocteau

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

– Jeremy Lin

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

– Anthony Bourdain

There are guys out there faster than me.

– Carl Hagelin

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

– Albert Einstein

Nothing’s faster than the Internet.

– Anna Sui

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

– A. J. Liebling

Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.

– Cam Newton

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

– Erik Brynjolfsson

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

– Nick Bostrom

In all the years I’ve taught at the FBI Academy, I’ve only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

– Frank Abagnale

Nobody is faster than me.

– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.

– Michael Dickinson

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

– Emmanuel Macron

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

– Moshe Safdie

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They’re nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

– Matt Ridley

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

– Lance Armstrong

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

– Jeff Goodell

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we’re familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.

– K. Eric Drexler

It’s very unlikely that we’re going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

– Richard Lugar

The lighter the car, the faster it goes.

– Robby Gordon

I honestly think if I would’ve tied my suit and there wouldn’t have been any water rushing through it, I think I could’ve gone at least a second faster.

– Ryan Lochte

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

– Thomas Piketty

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

– Seymour Cray

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

– Vanilla Ice

The only thing growing faster than the federal government’s deficit is Chris Matthews’ man-crush on Barack Obama.

– Tim Pawlenty

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