F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Song
  • Mom

• It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Trust

• The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Purpose
  • Never
  • Noble

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Time
  • Place
  • Interested

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Down

• I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Bring

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Change
  • Health

• The world is no longer against us.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Against
  • U.S.

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Reading
  • Animal
  • Almost

• The best of healers is good cheer.

  

  Pindar
  • Good
  • Cheer
  • Healers

• Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Health
  • Qualities
  • Gifts

• I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Lost
  • Fall

• Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Lost
  • Cry
  • White