Gloria Vanderbilt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Business #Helping #Always Believe
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Healing #Bliss
...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Love #Smile #Laughter
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Heart #Hands #Ideas
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Secret #Bigs #Bigger
I believe in marriage and fidelity.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Believe #I Believe #Fidelity
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Insecure #People #Cold
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Writing #Thinking #Age
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Loss #Born #Grows
Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Inspirational #Secret #Bigs
I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. 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.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Mean #Being In Love #Thinking
Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#People #Magic #Want
Everything in life is elusive.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Life Is #Elusive
I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Men #Thinking #Lucky
If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Mother #Growing Up #Father
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Animal #Stories #Fables
When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Beach #Lying #Cities
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Philosophy #Suffering #Why Not
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Mom #Mother #Soul
I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Giving #People #House
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Why Me
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Writing #Would Be
The heart of another is a dark forest.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Heart #Dark #Forests
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

#Dark #Light #Joy
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Dream #Mind #Fiction
You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Feet #Able #Next
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Life #Real #Color
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

#Believe #Destiny #Astrology
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
-- Gloria Vanderbilt

#Different #Taste #Fame

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