Top 100 Vanderbilt's Quotes
#1. Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a fundamental integrity that affects both their thoughts and their actions.
Joe B Wyatt
#3. I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#6. In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#7. In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...
Amy Vanderbilt
#8. All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#9. It's probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control.
Tom Vanderbilt
#10. I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#11. I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#12. A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#13. You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#14. I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#15. Gut feelings help us filter the world, and what is taste, really, but a kind of cognitive mechanism for managing sensory overload? But
Tom Vanderbilt
#16. In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.
Tom Vanderbilt
#17. When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.
Tom Vanderbilt
#18. The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918
William Henry Vanderbilt
#19. That is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#20. A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#21. Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.
Tom Vanderbilt
#22. My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
Thomas Peterffy
#23. One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
Amy Vanderbilt
#25. The anxious positioning Bourdieu had noted could be felt in a tweeted "humblebrag," an attempt to claim cultural capital without looking as if one were doing so.
Tom Vanderbilt
#27. Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
Amy Vanderbilt
#28. I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#29. The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#30. I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#31. It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.
Allen Ginsberg
#32. When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#33. Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg's Pop-Tarts box that says, Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.
Tom Vanderbilt
#35. There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#36. In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#37. I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#38. When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#39. The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.
Tom Vanderbilt
#41. Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
Roy Blount Jr.
#42. Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
Amy Vanderbilt
#43. Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.
Tom Vanderbilt
#44. I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#45. I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#46. I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
William Henry Vanderbilt
#47. Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#48. If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#50. Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#51. This is the reason the whole 'keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel, use the hands-free handset' idea is a silly thing," Simons said. "Having your eyes on the road doesn't do any good unless your attention is on the road too.
Tom Vanderbilt
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
Alastair Wood
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C.
Tom Vanderbilt
#61. Knowing where to look - and remembering what you have seen - is a hallmark of experience and expertise.
Tom Vanderbilt
#62. 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
#63. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
Amy Vanderbilt
#71. You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#72. 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
#73. Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...
Amy Vanderbilt
#74. 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
#75. 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
#78. When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.
Fran Lebowitz
#79. I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#80. Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#82. Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#83. I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#84. Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?
Mr. T
#86. I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#87. If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#89. I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#90. The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#91. Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.
James Vanderbilt
#93. The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
Amy Vanderbilt
#94. The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#96. 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
#98. Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#99. I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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