MINUTE in Classic Quotes

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

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

2  We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.

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

3  I called Gatsby's house a few minutes later, but the line was busy.

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

4  I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

5  They got a circular from New York giving 'em the numbers just five minutes before.'

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

6  I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.

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

7  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

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  I sat down for a few minutes with my head in my hands, until I heard the phone taken up inside and the butler's voice calling a taxi.

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

10  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

11  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

12  Still later Michaelis had to ask the last stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer while he went back to his own place and made a pot of coffee.

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

13  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

14  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

15  It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

16  I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.

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

17  Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.

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