F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.
Quotes to Explore
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.
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Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
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Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.
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Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.
