F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Dead

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Time
  • Real
  • Family

• One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • More
  • Far
  • Rare

• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Same

• I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Planet

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• The core of my personality consists of many selves.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Personality
  • Many
  • Core

• You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Home
  • Know
  • Events

• I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Marine
  • Recruit
  • San

• If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Listen

• MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• Not many of my friends I had from college are playing in this league. Everybody knows it's a privilege, so you definitely don't knock it because you never know where you may end up.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • May
  • Friends

• Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Project
  • Directing

• I gave a reply: that my election speeches are available with the election commission. My statements are available in the newspapers. If you will find out a single statement that you can brand as communal, I will declare myself defeated. No one dared to come forward.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Single

• One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters

• For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Women
  • Home
  • Dream

• Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

  

  Chris Hayes
  • Dream

• Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gay
  • Polite
  • Baltimore