F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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• When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Experience
  • America
  • Age

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Think
  • You
  • Nation

• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Politics

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Power

• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Audience

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• To me, my business is my life.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Culture

• My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Vision
  • Nation
  • India

• It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • School
  • Money

• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Society
  • Complaining

• And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • Present

• Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Tired

• Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • People

• People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Hollywood

• Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Family
  • Skiing
  • I Want

• Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Flower