Tales Of The Jazz Age Fitzgerald Quotes & Sayings

I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me. — Emilia Fox

There it is again, right in my head, I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME -
But this time it's different -
There's a lightness -
A breath-stealing feeling -
A weightlessness to it that makes my stomach rise -
"I give you a gift," he says, his voice floating thru my head like a cloud on fire. "The same gift I've given to my captains. Use it. Use it to defeat me. I dare you."
I look into his eyes, into the blackness of them, the blackness that swallows me whole -
I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME.
And that's all I can hear in the whole world. — Patrick Ness

If a man chooses a certain Way and seems to have no particular talent for this Way, he can still become a master if he so chooses. By keeping at a particular form of study a man can attain perfection either in this life or the next (if a next life is believed in). — Miyamoto Musashi

There's a light, I still see it
There's a hand still holding me
Even when I don't believe it — Danny Gokey

One of my favorite things about following Jesus is I get to drop the act, admit I'm not good enough, walk in freedom-and that's good news. — Jefferson Bethke

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane. — Robert Breault

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. — Jean De La Bruyere

The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out. — George Carlin

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur. — Madame De Stael

Not to me," I said.
Kafka wrote his first story in one night. Stendhal wrote The
Charterhouse of Parma in forty-nine days. Melville wrote Moby-
Dick in sixteen months. Flaubert spent five years on Madame
Bovary. Musil worked for eighteen years on The Man Without
Qualities and died before he could finish. Do we care about any
of that now? — Paul Auster

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. — Martin Van Buren

And if you lose the willingness, what do you have? — Sabrina Benulis

At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic. — Karen Elson

Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury. — Andrew Symonds

But it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal. — Edgar Allan Poe