Top 24 Vechten Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#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. 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
#11. 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
#13. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
Carl Van Vechten
#14. 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
#15. The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.
Frederick Lenz
#16. 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
#18. Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
Carl Van Vechten
#19. 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
#20. There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Carl Van Vechten
#22. I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
Carl Van Vechten
#23. Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
Carl Van Vechten
#24. 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
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