Gore Vidal Quotes

For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Topics

GoodBelieveAmericanWorthDown

You're never going to do as good a job as you can if you're rushed.

Michael Cudlitz

GoodJobYouNeverGoingRushed

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Sophia Bush

HeartTimeBestTeenAmazingYou

In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.

Matt Bellamy

IntelligencePurposeLongAutomation

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

Michael Ovitz

BusinessTogetherGovernmentSchool

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

RelationshipTimeSimpleFoolIdeas

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Demosthenes

WayGetCorrectOurselvesRid

There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.

Dee Rees

PowerSayingInspireYouWantKind

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

Chely Wright

MenLieMeFeelWrongPerson

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

Constance Marie

LifeBabyThoughtMy LifeProblem

This is my breakfast: Two poached eggs, turkey bacon, and a half avocado. The yolks in a poached egg are alkalizing. Avocados are a great source of fat and vitamin E; great for your skin. It's super light and not too heavy. Sometimes I like a little sweet as well, so I have a cup of plain yogurt with blueberries.

April Bowlby

GreatLightBreakfastSweetFatEgg

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

William Thomas

ImportantOwnHerMeaninglessDeal

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.

Pico Iyer

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