Carl Van Vechten Quotes

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Carl Van Vechten

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Kind

• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Vision
  • United States
  • Truck

• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • You
  • Things
  • Connections

• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Politics
  • Side
  • Lot

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Job
  • Quality

• If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • You
  • Chance
  • Analyst

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Support
  • Government
  • Period

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Time
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Wish
  • Question
  • Tired

• I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them. Mine are not like that. Mine tend to go: 'Argh,' and look horrified. They shake and take a picture from a really long way away. I do feel I've got quite good, respectful ones though.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Human
  • Menace

• We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Pretty
  • Respect
  • Decision

• The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Friend