Edmund White Quotes

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

Edmund White

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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

Fabrizio Moreira
- Time
- Trying
- Today
I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

Patrick Whitesell
- She
- Small
- Dad
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

Rachel Perry
- Real
- Nice
- Kind
I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

Natalie Cole
- Fun
- Dad
- Like
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

Sally Phillips
- Love
- Around
- Days
Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.

Olav Thon
- Country
- War
- Free