Top 100 Quotes About Zelda
#1. It gave Boy 412 the impression that Aunt Zelda had walked into a large patchwork tent and had just, that very minute, poked her head out of the top to see what was going on.
Angie Sage
#2. Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.
Zelda Popkin
#4. The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.
Erika Robuck
#5. I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#6. I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#7. Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#8. Bitterness will make you sick. During [Madiba's] imprisonment they were forced to work in the limestone quarry. Chipping away for no reason. Bitterness is the same. You reduce your own character with such a mindless exercise of cultivating bitterness.
Zelda La Grange
#9. We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#10. Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.
Angie Sage
#11. This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?
Neal Shusterman
#12. All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself
Zelda Fitzgerald
#13. She tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#14. Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#15. There is a difference between really being concerned about service delivery and incompetence and just complaining for the sake of it.
Zelda La Grange
#16. But it was not her beauty that was arresting. It was her style, a sort of insolence toward life, her total lack of caution, her fearless and abundant pride.
Nancy Milford
#17. A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#18. It's not important in life what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you.
Zelda La Grange
#20. I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#21. [Mandela] had believed all his life that you are very much in control of your own body, and, in the process of healing, your mind had to be stronger than the medicines applied. You also had to have determination to get better.
Zelda La Grange
#22. If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#23. I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#24. Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just as essential to yourself as if it is a great masterpiece.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#25. Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#26. It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#27. I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.
Zelda Rubinstein
#28. ["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#29. The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.
Zelda Fichandler
#30. Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear. ~Madame Zelda to Roller Deb
Red Tash
#31. We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#32. I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#33. I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#34. Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#35. Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#36. It was irrelevant how much time you spent with Madiba. Your relationship with him depended on how you felt about him in you heart.
Zelda La Grange
#37. Be kind to every person you meet because we don't know their battles.
Zelda La Grange
#38. I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#39. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#40. I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#41. She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#42. It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#43. There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.
Zelda Fichandler
#44. From the Young Army Fact List:
Fact One: No early morning roll call:
GOOD.
Fact Two: Much better food. GOOD.
Fact Three: Aunt Zelda nice: GOOD.
Fact Four: Princess-girl friendly: GOOD.
Fact Five: Have Magyk ring: GOOD.
Fact Six: Extraordinary Wizard Cross: BAD.
Angie Sage
#45. It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.
Eiji Aonuma
#47. Aunt Zelda had written her note on special paper that she had made from pressed cabbage leaves.
Angie Sage
#50. Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled 'the past,' and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#51. What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.
Zelda Popkin
#52. Loyalty and dedication can't be bought or paid to go away.
Zelda La Grange
#54. This was Scott. This is Scott, always looking back to try to figure out how to go forward, where happiness and prosperity must surely await.
Therese Anne Fowler
#55. Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#56. Zelda was a creature who overflowed with activity, radiant with desire to take from life every chance her charm, youth, and intelligence provided so abundantly.
Nancy Milford
#57. Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. Zelda was winter's best dame: pale and dark with a shimmer of Christmas in her eye, a flash of New Year's in her laugh.
Catherynne M Valente
#59. It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.
Nancy Milford
#60. I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#61. I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#62. She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#63. The night you gave me my birthday party ... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#64. David, I'll fly for you, if you'll love me!"
"Fly, then."
"I can't fly, but love me anyway."
"Poor wingless child!"
"Is it so hard to love me?"
"Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?
Zelda Fitzgerald
#65. Aunt Zelda always said: the thought is the seed for deed.
Angie Sage
#66. You'll be sorry," he said unpleasantly.
"I hope so," Alabama answered. "I like paying for the things I do-it makes me feel square with the world".
Zelda Fitzgerald
#67. I feel very vulnerable at Halloween. I feel that people who might come to the door might not have candy intentions. I'm a little lady and I can be overcome.
Zelda Rubinstein
#68. Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.
Zelda La Grange
#69. He believed, as I did, that we are helpless to resist or influence what our hearts are bound to do. - Z - A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler
#70. Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#71. But swan, float lightly because you are a swan, because by the exquisite curve of your neck the gods gave you some special favor, and even though you fracture it running against some man-made bridge, it healed and you sailed onward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald to his wife Zelda.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.
Zelda Popkin
#73. I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
Warren Spector
#74. She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#75. Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ...
Zelda Fitzgerald
#76. -no, I was a strange new Zelda Sayre released from all constrictions, drunk with the timeless rhythms of sea and sun and passion, more daring and oblivious to danger than I'd ever been before.
Therese Anne Fowler
#77. He can do it any time he wants,' says Zelda, hugging me from the other side. 'Any time he sees a Nazi, he can just do a poo.
Morris Gleitzman
#78. There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.
Zelda La Grange
#79. Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#80. Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#81. Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#82. Things," Aunt Zelda reminded everyone on the bridge, "are not always as they seem. Remember, the moon always shows the truth How we see it, is up to us to us, not the moon
Angie Sage
#85. The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#86. Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
Zelda Fitzgerald
#87. Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#88. Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty
Ring Lardner
#89. Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.
Robert Breault
#90. Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#91. Of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.
Zelda Popkin
#92. Remember when we had trouble beating the last few levels of Zelda? We pooled our allowances and bought the walk-through guide to help us out.' He softly adds, 'You should've asked for help before cheating.
Adam Silvera
#93. To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.
Zelda La Grange
#94. New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.
Zelda Popkin
#95. It is of vital importance to [Mandela] to be courteous and grateful at all times, as we never know whether we will have the opportunity to thank people or pay respect whenever they have been good to you.
Zelda La Grange
#96. No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
Zelda Popkin
#97. She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#99. She did as she pleased, regarding life as 'an inexhaustible counter', from which she seemed to be continually picking out presents for herself.
Judith Mackrell
#100. My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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