MINUTE in Classic Quotes

1  For half a minute there wasn't a sound.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

2  "Come along with me for a minute," I said.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

3  I just got here a minute ago, from New York.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

4  The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

5  Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

7  It all happened in a minute but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

8  There is always a halt there of at least a minute and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

9  The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

10  Now see here, Tom," said Daisy, turning around from the mirror, "if you're going to make personal remarks I won't stay here a minute.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

11  She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me and continued: "I looked outdoors for a minute and it's very romantic outdoors."

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

12  Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

13  Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

14  He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

15  She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses who stopped at the foot of the steps.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

16  Then out into the spring fields, where a yellow trolley raced them for a minute with people in it who might once have seen the pale magic of her face along the casual street.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

17  Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5