F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
Quotes to Explore
-
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
-
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
-
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
-
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
-
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
-
Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
-
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
-
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
-
That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
-
If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
-
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-
Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
-
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
-
If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
-
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
-
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
-
There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an 'Inside Men' sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.
-
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.
-
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
-
You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
-
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
-
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
