Fitzgerald Quotes
56 quotes by 52 authors
-
We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and…
— Sheryl Crow
-
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald…
— W T Purkiser
-
Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the…
— John Aldridge
-
The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and…
— Doris Day
-
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those…
— Count Basie
-
Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and…
— Natalie Dormer
-
My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.
— Karl Rove
-
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they…
— Mike Tyson
-
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
— William Butler Yeats
-
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage,…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
-
To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
— Fran Lebowitz
-
The guys that are out there now like Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald they're making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I'm not looking…
— Brandon Marshall
-
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
— Bob Iger
-
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…
— Antonio Damasio
-
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is…
— Leslie Poles Hartley
-
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though…
— Maureen Corrigan
-
Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
-
Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but…
— Jonathan Yardley
-
If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.
— Vincente Minnelli
-
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
— Irwin Shaw
Who Wrote These Fitzgerald Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 56 Fitzgerald Quotes, led by these top contributors: