“Never miss a party… good for the nerves--like celery.”
Source: Gatsby Girls
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
Those Barren Leaves (1925)
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
“You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.”
Edward on Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Guilty Pleasures (1993)
“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
As quoted in The Jerusalem Post (18 November 2002) http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000491.html; often misquoted as "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The quote is attributed to Abba Eban after the Geneva Peace Conference http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/geneva.html with Arab countries (21 December 1973).
“It is my job, as a writer, to give the world toffee and peanut brittle and tough steak and celery.”
(23 June 2003)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2003
Context: The world wants oatmeal. It is not my job to give the world oatmeal. It is my job not to be a hack. It is my job to try to make the world chew, lest its lazy jaw muscles atrophy and its collective mandible withers and all its teeth fall out. It is my job, as a writer, to give the world toffee and peanut brittle and tough steak and celery. I write peanut butter sandwiches, not oatmeal. And every time some dolt whines, "I'm confused" or "I don't understand" or "This doesn't make any sense," I should smile and know that I'm doing my job. Not because it is my job to be opaque, but because it is not my job to be transparent.