F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Myself

• We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • Step

• You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Doing

• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hate
  • Summer
  • Camping

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • You
  • Me
  • Either

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Find
  • U.S.
  • Seek

• It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Father
  • Me
  • Habit

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Man
  • Know
  • Temptation

• Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Energy

• ...it's just another one of those things I don't understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• In 1971, big tournaments were very new to me. I just thought Wimbledon was one of the other tournaments.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Thought
  • Tournaments

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thought
  • Library
  • Might