Fitzgerald Quotes
56 quotes by 52 authors
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These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald…
— James Russell Lowell
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I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
— Johnny Mathis
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I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.
— Bridgit Mendler
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The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives…
— Harlan Ellison
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The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be…
— Azar Nafisi
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Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to…
— James Rollins
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Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by…
— Dree Hemingway
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then…
— Garrett Hedlund
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
— Baz Luhrmann
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I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
— Lena Horne
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I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
— Joanna Noelle Levesque
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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
— Jackie Kennedy
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Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
— Dionne Warwick
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I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan.…
— Dionne Warwick
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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
— Jodi Picoult
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On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so…
— Jodi Picoult
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a…
— Pat Conroy
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The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and…
— David Nicholls
Who Wrote These Fitzgerald Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 56 Fitzgerald Quotes, led by these top contributors: