
Top 28 Carl Van Vechten Quotes
#2. 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
#3. An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten
#4. 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
#5. Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
Carl Van Vechten
#6. The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
Carl Van Vechten
#7. Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
Carl Van Vechten
#8. 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
#9. The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
Carl Van Vechten
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I want to minimize the number of
deaths I am responsible for,
John Green
#13. The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
Chris Kyle
#14. We need not to put words in the mouth of truth. Truth cannot digest lies
Kishore Bansal
#15. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
Carl Van Vechten
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
Jeff Bezos
#20. You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.
Nhat Hanh
#22. Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
Carl Van Vechten
#23. 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
#24. What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#25. There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Carl Van Vechten
#27. I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
Carl Van Vechten
#28. Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
Carl Van Vechten
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