F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Myself

• I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Small
  • Small Things

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Future
  • Past
  • Taken

• I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Chicago
  • Heavy
  • Assigned

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Style
  • Effort

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Single
  • Child

• I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Fortune

• Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Learning

• I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Design

• A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

  

  John Eaton
  • Music
  • Important
  • Greek

• When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • World
  • Complete

• A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Real
  • Air