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

• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Moving
  • Language
  • Emotions

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back. I couldn't quite wrap my head around it. But now that I'm deeply in, as a watcher of content, what a brilliant business model. As a consumer, it's empowering to choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. I have three small children, so I need that flexibility, in order to really get into a show. And being on a Netflix show, it's perfect timing. I feel so grateful.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Husband

• The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

  

  James Mattis
  • Important

• 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