American Jazz Age Quotes & Sayings

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I'm his ideal. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got. — Robert Hellenga

Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me? — Melina Marchetta

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true. — Cathy Burnham Martin

We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era's creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA. — Clement Alexander Price

That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it. — Charles Bukowski

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks. — Clement Alexander Price

Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent. — Cynthia Nixon

I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat. — Patricia Marx

Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American. — Wynton Marsalis

A kiss on the head! you really are a passion wagon! — Justin Somper

And Ana remembered her father's words, Say no! Run! Tell me! — Carolyn Byers Ruch