Jesse Fitzgerald Quotes

I suddenly remember an old game I used to play when I was nine or ten, and I was allowed to ride my bike until it got dark. I used to make little bets with myself as I watched the sun getting lower and lower on the horizon: If I hold my breath to twenty seconds, the night won't come. If I don't blink. If I stand so still a fly lands on my cheek. Now, I find myself doing the same thing, bargaining to keep Kate, even though that isn't the way it works. ~ Jodi Picoult

My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was made out of smoke.
That was the first time I thought that maybe I was. ~ Jodi Picoult

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world. ~ Jodi Picoult

I glance at the house, dark and empty. "Am I my sister's keeper?" I say. Then I grin at her. "If you feel like waiting, you can come up and see my etchings. ~ Jodi Picoult

In America anyone can still become someone. ~ Jesse Owens

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

You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's about, and he says, 'It's about a one-legged captain who's had his leg bitten off by a whale.' It wouldn't have sounded that promising. Fitzgerald wrote Gatsby, he was told you couldn't write seriously about a bootlegger. If a man cares intensely enough about tiddley winks, his book about tiddley winks ill be a great novel. ~ Matthew J. Bruccoli

Very rarely, with the spur of jealousy or forced separation, the ancient ecstasies returned, the apparent communion of soul and soul, the emotion excitement. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am reminded once again that the best things about America are the little things, the little freedoms that Americans don't think twice about. ~ Laura Fitzgerald

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever. ~ Jesse Eisenberg

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity. ~ Jesse L. Martin

Nothing any good isn't hard. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I want to be a society vampire, you see. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently. ~ Jesse Kellerman

Never miss a party ... good for the nerves
like celery. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area. ~ Jesse Eisenberg

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The barking of the dogs was getting louder, closer once more. Jesse's finger curled
around the trigger. He tried to still his mind from all thoughts. But the image of Miss
Althea lingered.
Sweet-smelling Miss Althea with her warm smile and her so very round parts. She never looked at him mean or like she was afraid. She looked at him loving, warm and loving, like she looked at the boy. She looked at Jesse that way. And he liked it. He really liked it. But he wanted it different, too. He was not a boy. Jesse was a man. He wanted Miss Althea to see that. He wanted to put meat on her table. That's what men do for the women they love. ~ Pamela Morsi

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it. ~ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery. ~ Caitlin Fitzgerald

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.' ~ Jesse McCartney

An unread book is just a block of paper. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption - and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank.
'Life makes its own corrections. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ... ~ Jesse Ventura

The artist, wrote Joseph Conrad, "speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives." That was the art that Scott Fitzgerald would find, reminding us that a mirage may be more marvelous in its way than an oasis in the desert. Gatsby's great error is his belief in the reality of the mirage; Fitzgerald's great gift was his belief in the mirage as a mirage. "Splendor," Fitzgerald came to understand, "was something in the heart. ~ Sarah Churchwell

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight. ~ Jesse Petersen

Never go to bed angry. Terrified is okay. ~ Jesse Petersen

What's more, his faded old jeans hugged his ass perfectly as he stepped forward to toss a ring, and then they loosened as he stepped back. Hug, loosen, hug, loosen, hug, hug ... hug ... loosen. Jeans all perfectly rumpled right down to his dull, black boots. No doubt he chose those jeans specifically for their butt-hugging abilities. He probably practiced that hug-promoting movement in the mirror. ~ Carolyn Crane

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design. ~ Jesse James Garrett

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture ~ Mark Steyn

In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to anticipate what the next big movement is going to be. The thing to do is to watch the market, read the tape to determine the limits of the get nowhere prices, and make up your mind that you will not take an interest until the prices breaks through the limit in either direction. ~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore

The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict ... (a) treatment of cancer. ~ Benedict Fitzgerald

Piney woke up wearing a big grin on his face. He couldn't remember when he'd slept so well. He pulled the pillow next to him up over his face. He could smell her hair on it.
"Jesse," he murmured to himself. He liked her. He really liked her. And he loved, loved, loved doing her.
Being inside her. She was so hot. She was so tight. She was ...
Piney stopped himself in midthought and rolled out of bed. His mind was headed where his body could not go. ~ Pamela Morsi

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

He waited rather breathlessly for her next remark... ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges. ~ Jesse Jackson

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head. ~ Edward FitzGerald

I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory
tucked away in my heart.' 'Yes, women can do that
but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.' 'Don't! ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Silence! I am about to unburden myself of many memorable remarks reserved for the darkness of such earths and the brilliance of such skies. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Did I do all right? ~ Ella Fitzgerald

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power. ~ Jesse Jackson

The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have. ~ Jesse Ball

You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald