F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • End
  • Impossible
  • Season

• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• We have to tokenize in order to normalize.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Order

• I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Business

• You never want to see a guy struggle. And we've all struggled. It's part of the game.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Want

• I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Experience

• I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • True
  • Man

• Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Different
  • Distance

• My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Wife
  • Month
  • Marrying

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Old
  • Just
  • Detroit

• The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Female

• You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Friends

• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Song
  • Play

• Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kiss

• There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Kiss