Fscottfitzgerald Quotes

#1. Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. When people query whether Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is real or not, my answer is always: Sweden has recognized the condition for a decade and has approximately 300,000 EHS people.

Steven Magee

#3. They (teenage boys)don't really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Rob Lowe

#4. I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

Nathan Fillion

#5. He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Sheilah Graham

#6. There is no king or sovereign state
That can fix a hero's rate;
Each to all is venerable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Theodore Bikel

#8. Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.

Truman Capote

#9. Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, 'Fascist,' 'Liberal,' 'Trotskyist,' and disparage you both intellectually and personally in the process.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. When life gives you lemons, say, "yeah I like lemons, what else ya got"?

Ann Brashares

#12. Don't know how many minutes I stood there. It was precisely the comfort she seemed to need this night. If only she had known to ask, or I to give, we could've done away with the blindfold ... Thank God for the blindfold. She

Abraham Verghese

#13. Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And as for the sheer writing, it's astonishing. [About The Great Gatsby]

Maxwell Perkins

#15. Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.

Anonymous

#17. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. You're right, Manon. It is all still there. The times we spent together are immortal, imperishable, and life never stops. The death of our loved ones is merely a threshold between an ending and a new beginning.

Nina George

#19. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

George Matthew Adams

#20. Rather than list all the things I don't like about him," Daisy said finally, "it's far easier to say there is no reason why I should like him.

Lisa Kleypas

#21. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Maxwell Perkins