F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
-
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
-
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
-
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
-
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
-
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
-
My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
-
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
-
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
-
Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
-
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
-
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
-
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
-
I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
-
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
-
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
-
Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
-
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
-
If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.
-
Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
-
It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
-
My friends have helped my daughter in certain areas more than I have. What these have taught me is that you need to be good to people. There will always be times when you need their help.
-
My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?' By the time they left, they understood why, because I had done the second act of 'West Side Story' and the first act of 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' playing all the parts. In many ways, that's what I'm still doing. I'm just getting paid better.
-
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
