Carl Van Vechten Quotes

#1. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Carl Van Vechten

#2. Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Carl Van Vechten

#3. I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

Carl Van Vechten

#4. Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

Carl Van Vechten

#5. There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

Carl Van Vechten

#6. What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

Carl Van Vechten

#8. Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

Carl Van Vechten

#9. A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

Carl Van Vechten

#10. You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Nhat Hanh

#11. Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Jeff Bezos

#12. I pity him who refuses to leave the minatory of his refutable Judgments and still insisting on producing his light to lit our worlds.

Annie Ali

#13. I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#14. The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

Carl Van Vechten

#15. A cat is never vulgar.

Carl Van Vechten

#16. We need not to put words in the mouth of truth. Truth cannot digest lies

Kishore Bansal

#17. The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

Chris Kyle

#18. I want to minimize the number of
deaths I am responsible for,

John Green

#19. The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

Stella Young

#20. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Carl Van Vechten

#21. The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

Carl Van Vechten

#22. 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

#23. Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

Carl Van Vechten

#24. The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

Carl Van Vechten

#25. Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

Carl Van Vechten

#26. One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art ... curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

Carl Van Vechten

#27. An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

Carl Van Vechten

#28. There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.

Maggie Smith