F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• 'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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  • Feeling
  • Chance

• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
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  • Step

• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Feeling
  • City

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • American
  • Free
  • Support

• My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Want
  • Car
  • Buildings

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Looks

• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
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  • Men
  • Real

• The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Paradise
  • Reasons
  • Cruel

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.

  

  Kali Uchis

• I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Trying
  • True

• I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

  

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Great
  • Men
  • Writing

• Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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