Gore Vidal
Related The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to ho... PETER ABRAHAMS TOM REISS MARK LAWRENCE MARK LAWRENCE MARK LAWRENCE 'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted ... JEROME CHARYN JAMES BUCHAN MARK LAWRENCE TONI BRAXTON The power never to allow money change your character is by having strong determination never to allo... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power never to allow money corrupt your mind is by learning not to revere money above people. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) MARK LAWRENCE After doing Paris, Milan, New York and London, we had a budget for India...But I am going back with ... ALBERT MORRIS London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. FENNEL HUDSON I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they ... JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't
believe it!" His Jedi me... THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back. ANDREW CUOMO A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century... DONALD HALL SHAHID KHAN WANG JIANLIN DAVID BENIOFF SALMAN RUSHDIE DONALD KAGAN RONALD REAGAN JOHN OLIVER RUSSELL CROWE For someone who is British, the fish have a certain kind of resonance. They were brought by function... ANDREW DAVIS NICHOLAS KRISTOF MARQUIS DE SADE JEFFREY EUGENIDES DAVID ATTENBOROUGH VINCE CABLE KEN LIVINGSTONE the blessed London battle, which came as a slap to the face of the tyrannical, crusader British arro... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI EVA GREEN In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent f... PATRICK WHITE KEVIN SPACEY I just like the lineage and the heritage and the fact that British dance music is still progressing.... JAMIE XX ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I got the call to play Tony Manero in 'Saturday Night Fever' in Madrid, a role I'd alway... JUAN PABLO DI PACE Money makes the wise more humble,but an opportunity for the fool to exhibit all his pride. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... DAVID BAILEY HELEN MCCRORY Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the the... CATERINA MURINO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES VICTORIA AVEYARD Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American... CYBILL SHEPHERD TAMMARA WEBBER ANTONY BEEVOR The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dini... ANTON DU BEKE In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. ... CAREY MULLIGAN Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire a... CECIL RHODES I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do. JOHN RAESE DORIS LESSING ALAIN DUCASSE As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. MARK RUTTE But also Ray's empire [his nightclub] is under threat. It's losing money. I know Louis's intention i... DAVID BERTHOLD NIGEL HAMILTON Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money. LILY COLE Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m... KATE WILLIAMS TADAO ANDO MARGARET ATWOOD England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. GEORGE A. MOORE DAVID NICHOLLS GORDON BROWN DAVID BAILEY LAO-TZU We believe it is important to have an organisational link in London, still the world's premier m... HELMUT SOHMEN ALICE WATERS Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. WILLIAM BLUM Down and Out in Paris and London. ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR NORMAN O. BROWN Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic fi... STEPHEN KINZER HORACE MANN PANKAJ MISHRA If we have told lies you have told half lies. A man who tells lies merely hides the truth, but a man... THE BRITISH CONSUL. Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its ... ROBERT TROUT Leonardo DiCaprio I find very inspiring... He's my idol. I absolutely love Leonardo DiCaprio. Ch... WILL POULTER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I talk to you today about the blessed London battle, which came as a slap in the face to the tyranni... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI SUNDAY ADELAJA STEPHANIE PERKINS JACQUES CHIRAC The French protectionist model is doomed to failure. Better to follow the examples from London and B... MARIO DRAGHI PETER HIGGS I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently... have a life. Everything h... CAROL VORDERMAN RICHARD ROGERS I love London, I love the British people. YOHAN BLAKE i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Eighty percent of the street trees in Paris are London plane trees. TOM HYLTON That came from the need in Europe, when they started building ring roads around Milan, Paris and Lon... DYLAN LILEY BILL HICKS When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could... WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia a... DIANE ABBOTT KATHARINE LEE BATES
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The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the... 
I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, ... 
They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. 
A Dark time comes. 
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-buildi... 
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire. 
Recent generations seem to consider ‘old-fashioned’ thinking as out-dated and without place in t... 
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly dr... 
I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire. 
If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - th... 
It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movi... 
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British pow... 
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an... 
The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world 
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. 
It's my grandfather's MBE, which stands for Member of the British Empire. He was awarded this by the... 
For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government ... 
The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's jus... 
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some... 
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the worl... 
Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation,... 
I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one... 
I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village ... 
I am now a commander of the British Empire. 
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive a... 
A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the... 
I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated wit... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse... 
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Sout... 
In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, beca... 
Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency... 
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residen... 
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un... 
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get ou... 
The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financia... 
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted,... 
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. 
When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that exi... 
For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into a... 
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borro... 
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, ... 
Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians. 
They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! 
I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassi... 
I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I r... 
Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, L... 
I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not g... 
You know all that money we spend on the military ever year -- trillions of dollars? Instead, if we u... 
Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London... 
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which ... 
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. 
I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.