Vechten Quotes

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

Carl Van Vechten

#2. Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.

Roald Dahl

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

Carl Van Vechten

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

Carl Van Vechten

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

Carl Van Vechten

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

Carl Van Vechten

#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. I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

Leonard Orr

#11. The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

Grace Slick

#13. 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

#14. A cat is never vulgar.

Carl Van Vechten

#15. 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

#16. To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

Henry Winkler

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

Carl Van Vechten

#18. 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

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

Carl Van Vechten

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

Carl Van Vechten

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

Carl Van Vechten

#22. 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

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

Carl Van Vechten

#24. Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Rose Kennedy