Edmund White Famous Quotes
"The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War."
Edmund White Quotations
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni
American Indian Proverb
You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive
Irv Kupcinet
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.
Will Rogers
"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...."
C S Lewis
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)
Lyndon B Johnson
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."
Anthelme BrillatSavarin
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.
Hannah Whitall Smith