F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
Quotes to Explore
-
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
-
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
-
Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
-
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
-
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
-
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
-
It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
-
I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
-
I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
-
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
-
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
-
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
-
Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
-
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
-
It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
-
I don't like to look typical.
-
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
-
Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
-
I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.
-
Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
-
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
-
Luckily, most days filming, for me, have involved a bit of a workout, too.
-
Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying information, literally lying...and in other ways thwarting potential cancer cures to which they were opposed.
-
To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
