Top Graydon Carter Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Graydon Carter Biography

Edward Graydon Carter, CM (born 14 July 1949) is a Canadian journalist and served as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986.

Read about Graydon Carter in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Graydon Carter Quotes

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.

Logging, Memories, Notebook, Smartphone, Taken

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

Customer, Dens, Deposits, Pursuits, Should, Would Be

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

Environment, Modern, Platform, President, Thinking

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

Care, Fair, Photography, Vanity

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Elephants, Empathy, Finest, Intelligence, Self, Worst

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

Big, Look, Looks, Small, Stuff, Trying

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

Clothes, Fatter, Good, Hide, Older

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

America, Discovered, Discovery, Drove, World

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

Editing, Gut, Guts, Research

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

Dare, Say, Troublemaker, Wit

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

Give, Idea, Ideas, Newspapers, Prayer, Swings

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

1920S, Country, Culture, Street, Wall

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

Disney, Father, Five, Lifetime, Sometimes

Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.

Jeans, Porkpie, Taken, Years

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U. S. in rock-bottom regard.

Blithe, Bullying, Bush, Ignorance, Rocks

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Killed, Math, Simple, Year, Years

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

Chooses, Considered, Hypocrisy, Issues, Numbers, Pick

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

Come, Customs, Devours, Missing, Past, Wish

Everything I love about America is fragile.

America, Everything, Fragile, Love

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Bush, Country, Diaper, Office, Roughly, Years

››

Graydon Carter Biography

Contact Us

About us