Conde Quotes

#1. Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!'
-'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde.
-'No, to resist,' replied the Baron.

Italo Calvino

#2. Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Marco Brambilla

#3. I am thrilled to become international 'Vogue' editor at Conde Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the 'Vogue' websites.

Suzy Menkes

#4. Mazarin shed tears over this great loss, which Conde, who had no feeling for anything but glory, disregarded. "A single night in Paris," said he, "gives birth to more men than this action has destroyed.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.

John Battelle

#6. There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.

Mitch Kapor

#7. Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

Alpha Conde

#8. A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Joseph Addison

#9. It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Alan Kulwicki

#10. The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.

Maryse Conde

#11. I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

Rick Santorum

#12. But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner.

Camilo Jose Cela Conde

#13. They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder

Maryse Conde

#14. Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.

Maryse Conde

#15. The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

Isobelle Carmody