F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mom

• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Death
  • Penalty

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Family
  • Me
  • Foundation

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Page

• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Accomplish

• Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happiness
  • Doing
  • Found

• In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Believe
  • May
  • Strong

• My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Dance
  • Feel

• I had all the confidence in Jay. I knew he was going to hit a big one for us.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Confidence

• I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Day
  • Bird

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over