Brian Fitzgerald Quotes

There is a point when a structure fire is raging out of control that you simply have to give it the distance to burn itself out. So you move back to safety, to a hill out of the wind, and you watch the building eat itself alive. ~ Jodi Picoult

Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald ~ Jodi Picoult

If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense. ~ Jodi Picoult

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I apply for a new job twice a week, every week. I am applying for the position of millionaire but so far my numbers haven't come up. ~ Brian Randleas

The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven hundred dollars and, like so many leaders, proved exceedingly difficult to follow. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God! ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

A writer wastes nothing. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society. ~ Brian D. McLaren

Embrace your death ... Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe. ~ Brian Swimme

Everyone in England ate mutton, but not horse meat, especially as influential people considered horses they had ridden both noble and too close to humans for either clerics or lords to consume. ~ Brian M. Fagan

I need you so
I can't let go
Gonna be all that I can be
I want you still
I always will
cause you're the only one for me ~ Brian McKnight

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

My image is who I am, but not what I write. ~ Brian M.W.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic. ~ Brian Chippendale

Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence. ~ Antonio Damasio

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. ~ Brian Ferneyhough

I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked - people didn't get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like oases, like the stops on the great trade routes. The sight of air travellers strolling in ones and twos into midnight airports will draw a small crowd any night up or two. The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself ~ Brian Tracy

In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness. ~ Brian Shactman

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation. ~ Brian Greene

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I couldn't do it anymore, so I left it all behind. And no matter how hard I tried, I fell apart too. We're not invincible. ~ Brian McBride

I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever to write a piece about him instead of Max Perkins,[Ernest] Hemingway, [John] Fitzgerald, or others that people have strong opinions of already. ~ Jude Law

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience ... . When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. BRIAN ADAMS ~ Jack Canfield

Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity. ~ Brian Grazer

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.' ~ Brian O'Driscoll

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to. ~ Brian Setzer

I'm honored that other comedians like what I do. That means the world to me. But at the same time when I'm on stage I'm not just trying to make the comedians laugh - I'm also trying to make the audience laugh. I want to make everybody laugh. ~ Brian Regan

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. ~ Brian Swimme

It's all impermanent, and in perfect rapture ~ Brian E. Miller

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that. ~ Brian Clough

Scoffin' a load of our grub an' not tellin' a story? I say, what a bally swizz! ~ Brian Jacques