Amy Vanderbilt Quotes

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Amy Vanderbilt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1908 - December 27, 1974

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I AmPeopleFindTryOutEtiquette

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

Andrea Bocelli

MusicManI AmJoyMeSinging

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

John Hewson

TimePoliticsStressWifeNewNever

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

LoveOvercomingEmotionalTorture

The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.

Amy Jackson

FamilyFriends And FamilyMeFriends

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

Rush Limbaugh

FreedomPeopleStartTalkingYou

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

Michael Phelps

SchoolHappyMomSwimmingSickEnd

The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

Lloyd Cutler

OpportunityPoliticalCountryDone

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Democritus

SpaceOpinionBrainyNothingEmpty

I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.

Cory Gardner

WorldPromotionCongressAuthority

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.

Chuck Norris

PeopleCongressBearRightLine

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

William Godwin

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There's no way for me to anticipate what people will like or not like.

Pete Docter

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