Bill Vaughan Quotes

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

Bill Vaughan

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Men
  • Community
  • Service

• The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Universe
  • Ocean
  • Self

• This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Race
  • Square
  • Times Square

• When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

  

  George MacDonald
  • World
  • Work
  • Sympathy

• Pacem sine dubio post haec, verum cruentam.

  

  Tacitus

• L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis, but no-one seems to sell them over here.

  

  Ashley Jensen

• not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Remember

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

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Simplicity
  • Despise