#ld

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #any #automatically #definition #disqualified

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ↗

— Willa Cather

#build #his #person #security #upon

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world. ↗

— George Catlin

#am #god #i #over #seen

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#big #chief #destination #difference #early

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#cannot #choose #literature #lose #made

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#get #hit #just #off #older

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#biggest #changing #fail #guaranteed #only

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#colour #fantastic #fashion #feel #happy