F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

Topics

LifeHappinessStruggleDefeatOut

My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

Viola Davis

GoodPageGotWholeCourageous

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

MyselfChildPeopleMeIdeasWant

And plenty makes us poor.

John Dryden

MoneyPoorUsMakesPlenty

It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

John Mulaney

LifeChangeTimePerspectiveThink

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Jeannette Rankin

PeopleYouGoWillTakeFar

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'

Stephen Daldry

MotherThoughtYouGayEarthSaid

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

Tristram Stuart

GoodLiveHeartEnvironmentalWay

My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.

Trombone Shorty

ParentsMeNeedTrumpetBecause

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

Tom Felton

DailyBullyingSchoolJealousyMind

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.

Michael Pollan

CookingHelpYouWantVoteBecome

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

Monica Raymund

SkyRedMeYouLookWill

I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I was going to Comic-Con. He called me a loser for not going that first year.

Michael McMillian

JobMeLoserTalkingRememberYear

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