Carl Van Vechten Quotes

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

Carl Van Vechten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 17, 1880 - December 21, 1964

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Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.

Jimmy Scott

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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Joan Halifax

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It's very natural for me now. A lot of airplanes, a lot of flights, a lot of hotels. Go home to pack and leave. But I'm used to it.

Jessica Jung

HomeMeGoNowLeaveUsed

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Michael Ignatieff

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I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Amy Irving

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I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

Simon Travaglia

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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

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I can write about my culture and religion because I am a product of both. Even when I'm accused of giving ammunition to the Islamophobic right, in the struggle between 'community' and 'women,' I always choose the women.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenCommunityCultureStruggle

When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.

Brendan Gleeson

LoveMeYouFindGoSound

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Antony Beevor

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One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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