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

• The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Great
  • Art

• Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Up
  • Earth

• I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Heart
  • Gay

• The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Funny

• And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Church

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

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Kiss