Fitzgerald Paris Quotes & Sayings

Standing in the station, with Paris in back of them, it seemed as if they were vicariously leaning a little over the ocean, already undergoing a sea-change, a shifting about of atoms to form the essential molecule of new people. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. — Philip Caldwell

Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever. — Meg Cabot

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them. — Henry Rollins

I, too, have had my revelation. I do not compare it with yours. It has no identifiable source. It is an inner conviction that has grown from a small thought to a large certainty that there is other life in the universe, that to prove its existence is the most gloriously human thing man can do, that to communicate with it would make this vast, incomprehensible place in which man lives, this unexplored forest of the night, a friendlier, happier, more wonderful, more exciting, holier place in which to be. — James Edwin Gunn

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. — E. O. Wilson

With great vision, strong determination, and persistent action, everyone is capable of achieving greatness. — Debasish Mridha

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. — Maxwell Maltz

He may be innocent of the murder, but he has certainly a bad conscience. — Mary Shelley

You people and your inability to distinguish fantasy from reality! — Ryohgo Narita

Paris is a pen-and-ink drawing before nine o'clock. — Zelda Fitzgerald

He saw Nicole in the garden. Presently he must encounter her and the prospect gave him a leaden feeling. Before her he must keep up a perfect front, now and tomorrow, next week and next year. All night in Paris he had held her in his arms while she slept light under the luminal; in the early morning he broke in upon her confusion before it could form, with words of tenderness and protection, and she slept again with his face against the warm scent of her hair. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners. — F Scott Fitzgerald

An old small hotel is much more valuable than a seven-star hotel because the former has a spirit and a literary posture! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.
"Is it like you felt toward me in Paris?"
"I feel comfortable and happy when I'm with you. In Paris it was different. But you never know how you once felt. Do you? — F Scott Fitzgerald

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success. — Paulo Coelho

How do you know it was him? Did he introduce himself?" He shakes his head. "Nah, but he overheard Marshall introducing me to someone as 'Lily's date.' I thought the look he gave me was going to set me on fire. That's why I came in here. I like you, but I'm not willing to die for you." I — Colleen Hoover