Bill Vaughan Quotes

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

Bill Vaughan

• World
• Simplicity
• Despise
• Deceit

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Dream
  • Isolation

• I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Live
  • Society

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Night
  • Car

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Victory
  • Will

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • God
  • Real
  • Lion

• Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Remember
  • Campaign
  • National

• My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

  

  Jeremy Abbott
  • Up
  • World
  • Fall

• I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.

  

  Andrzej Stasiuk
  • Things
  • Borders
  • Though

• Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Simplicity
  • Despise