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Gore Vidal Quotes

TV news is not very instructive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

News TV Very TV News

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

Growing Up Growing Up Bands Lot

There are so many serious things in the world; I just choose not to be one of them.

World Choose Serious Things Just

I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.

Live Walk Me Famous New Nice

A lot of these girls have a goal in life to find a rich guy. I can smell it from a mile away. They won't catch me! I know what they look like. They come with their little Kelly bag and their Rolex and the Louboutin shoes that are slightly too sexy. Shove off! Do you think I'm going to be the next sucker here?

Life Shoes Me Rich Think Sexy

I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'

Know Craft Old Whatever Anything

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

Opportunity You Years Decide Compete

The Keystone pipeline is one of those things that's sort of a political driver. And mostly, the Republicans use it to sort of embarrass the president and embarrass quite a few Democrats who feel that there's a potential for an environmental disaster.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Environmental Potential Political Who

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Luc de Clapiers

Success Sometimes Extraordinary Most

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

Music People Saying Understanding

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

Think Nostalgia Kind Cynicism Gone

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

Christina Milian

Growing Up Growing Up Dork Like

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

American Punishment Almost None

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