F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Jim Fowler

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I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

Joe Pantoliano

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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

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I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.

John McEnroe

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The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

Matthew Bourne

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My time in war zones have been fleeting and infrequent. I've been to Iraq. I've been to Afghanistan. I've been to other places where I've collected hazardous duty pay.

Michael Hayden

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Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.

Michael J. Fox

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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Mercy Otis Warren

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Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Tom Hodgkinson

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I'm careful with money.

Craig Ferguson

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I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.

Conor McGregor

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