W. H. Vanderbilt Quotes

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

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.

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

I'm the girliest girl you are ever going to meet.

I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

If you have health, you have everything.

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.

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.

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.

Nobody should get married at 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.

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.

Death is the price you paid for being born.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.

Intersections are crash magnets.

That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

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.

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.