Top 34 C Vanderbilt Quotes

#1. I lived in Europe until I was 9, really.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #18647
#2. Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Amy Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #23064
#3. It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #32484
#4. Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...

Amy Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #60348
#5. it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built "The Breakers" he damned himself.

Joan Didion

C Vanderbilt Quotes #88477
#6. You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #101185
#7. Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Amy Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #116092
#8. I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #125367
#9. I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #140403
#10. As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble was for common people. Mr. Bubble was for my so-called brother, their true child. I was a Vanderbilt. I should bathe in condiments and seasonings.

Augusten Burroughs

C Vanderbilt Quotes #160115
#11. Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before ... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #172766
#12. One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #187537
#13. When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #195314
#14. Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

Nancy Allen

C Vanderbilt Quotes #214339
#15. When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #218241
#16. Knowing where to look - and remembering what you have seen - is a hallmark of experience and expertise.

Tom Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #221020
#17. Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #223119
#18. I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #264622
#19. 'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C.

Tom Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #288361
#20. As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

Tom Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #290032
#21. Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Tom Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #304985
#22. Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

Alastair Wood

C Vanderbilt Quotes #315111
#23. When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #344217
#24. I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #375238
#25. 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

C Vanderbilt Quotes #384345
#26. If you have health, you have everything.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #387609
#27. I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #398551
#28. Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #418248
#29. The public be damned.

William Henry Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #430364
#30. To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything
all I had to do was be.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #502453
#31. Intersections are crash magnets.

Tom Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #511631
#32. The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

Gloria Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #524896
#33. The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

Amy Vanderbilt

C Vanderbilt Quotes #530871
#34. The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.

B.C. Forbes

C Vanderbilt Quotes #1849222

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