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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Sun Quotes

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Polonius reads aloud Hamlet’s passionate declaration to Ophelia in a love letter he wrote to her. Polonius uses the letter to explain the true reason for Hamlet’s madness.

At about ten o’clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. The ray of light is a symbol of hope and belief in the American Dream.

Work, sleep, a vodka cocktail, not much sun - Vera Wang tips for staying youthful at 70

In 70th Birthday

Work, sleep, a vodka cocktail, not much sun.

– Vera Wang

Fashionista’s tips for staying youthful at 70.

Ali G: Do you think man will ever walk on da sun?
Buzz Aldrin: No, the sun is too hot and it’s not a good place to to go.
Ali G: What happens when they go in winter, when the sun is cold.

– Sacha Baron Cohen

As Ali G, Da Ali G Show.

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield in Chapter 1.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

– Graham Parker

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

– Henry Rollins

There is not much sun, but I didn’t move to Manchester to go to the beach.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

The sun is new each day.

– Heraclitus

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

– Gamaliel Bailey

The love that moves the sun and other stars.

– Dante Alighieri

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers… clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

– George Catlin

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

– Harriet Tubman

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

– Guy Laliberte

I will always have a soft spot for ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon,’ which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

– Genevieve Valentine

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.

– Henry Ward Beecher

Both parents were very encouraging – especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.

– Gordon Getty

Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of ‘Soleil’ came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.

– Guy Laliberte

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn’t pure. And the sun has spots.

– Gunter Grass

I think it’s a shame that we have ‘Bild’ like you have the ‘Sun’. Now serious newspapers like ‘FAZ’ and ‘Spiegel’ use a bit of the tone of ‘Bild.’ This is terrible.

– Gunter Grass

I’ve probably had my day in the sun. I think I’ve influenced a lot of comic book writers.

– Harvey Pekar

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

– Harold E. Hughes

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.

– Hamlin Garland

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

– George Porter

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

– Henry David Thoreau

I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast of ‘A Raisin In The Sun.’ We were directed by the great Lloyd Richards. The play was written by the wonderful Lorraine Hansberry, and it was produced by Phil Rose. That’s where my start was, so… not a bad way to start.

– Glynn Turman

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody’s backside, it’s worth paying attention.

– Guy Spier

I’m definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow.

– Gillian Zinser

They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.

– Grace Jones

I stayed out of the sun when I was young, not because I knew better, but because I’m a Type A personality who gets too restless to lay around and do nothing.

– Georgette Mosbacher

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