Vanderbilt Quotes
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Vanderbilt Quotes & Sayings
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disappearing into the rent sky.
— K.M. Vanderbilt
I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.
— James Vanderbilt
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
— Amy Vanderbilt
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
Never be a minion, always be an owner.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
— Gloria Vanderbilt
If you have health, you have everything.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
— Amy Vanderbilt
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
I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.
Nobody should get married at 17.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.
— Tom Vanderbilt
The road itself tells us far more than signs do.
— Tom Vanderbilt
Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.
— Tom Vanderbilt
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
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
Intersections are crash magnets.
— Tom Vanderbilt
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.
— Tom Vanderbilt
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
What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (New York: Walker and Co., 1998), 94.
— Tom Vanderbilt
Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.
— Tom Vanderbilt
I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Death is the price you paid for being born.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
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
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I lived in Europe until I was 9, really.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
— Thomas Peterffy
Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
— Gloria Vanderbilt
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.
— Tom Vanderbilt
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
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
Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
— Amy Vanderbilt
I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.
— Gordon Gee
'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C.
— Tom Vanderbilt
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
You are not put on this earth to see through people. You are put on this earth to see people through.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
— Amy Vanderbilt
I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I believe in marriage and fidelity.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
That is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I'm the girliest girl you are ever going to meet.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
The public be damned.
— William Henry Vanderbilt
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.
— Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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
The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918
— William Henry Vanderbilt
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
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
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
— Amy Vanderbilt
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Experts are people who have the same opinions as other experts.
— Tom Vanderbilt
Knowing where to look - and remembering what you have seen - is a hallmark of experience and expertise.
— Tom Vanderbilt
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
— Amy Vanderbilt
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.
— Amy Vanderbilt
Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
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
A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
There is no friendship in trade.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
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.
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
— Amy Vanderbilt
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
— Amy Vanderbilt
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
Everything in life is elusive.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.
— William Henry Vanderbilt