F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JokeOutPointOwnCutLaughing

We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.

Jessica St. Clair

WorldYouTelevisionMatterWatching

I think that much of the success of the Broadway mounting of 'Newsies' was due in no small part to the infectious camaraderie on stage between the boys.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

SuccessSmallThinkStageBroadway

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

John W. Snow

EnergyEfficiencyDoubtPlayLead

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tom Lantos

AnniversaryLossWillJewishJuly

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Russell M. Nelson

SuccessResponsibilitySafetyMission

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

Miriam Toews

ExperienceBrainStoryBetterYou

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Don DeLillo

NatureFearTimeRainCuriousDown

Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.

Derek Walcott

WaterHabitYourselfStandDoingGo

Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

Douglas Alexander

PeacePeopleIdeasFreeLongTrade

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

Christopher Fowler

ChildNeverWhoReadDidMet

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

William Gilmore Simms

HumorBelieveSense Of HumorSense

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Phyllis Schlafly

FreedomAchievementWorldValues

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