F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Money
  • Me
  • Shopping

• Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Head
  • Medical

• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Listening

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• I either run or try to play basketball every day.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Basketball

• I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • American
  • Economy
  • Building

• I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Kid
  • Big
  • Collector

• I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Why
  • America
  • Will

• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins
  • Forgiven

• Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Man
  • Mean
  • See

• My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Father

• I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Care
  • Really

• It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Serious

• His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Air
  • Green

• The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Wise

• The holy march on which the Arab nation insists, will carry us forward from one victory to another ... the flag of freedom which flies over Baghdad today will fly over Amman and Riyadh. Yes, the flag of freedom which flies over Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad today will fly over the rest of the Middle East

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Rest

• Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

  

  Ernst Fischer
  • Time
  • Business
  • Calm

• 'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Relationship
  • Transformation

• I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don't all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Car

• Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald