Bill Vaughan Quotes

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

Bill Vaughan

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• Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Bad
  • Man

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
  • Matches

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  

  U Thant
  • Men
  • Love
  • Compassion

• I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Done
  • Never
  • Cutting

• I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Learning
  • Body
  • Medicine

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Night
  • Light
  • Sun

• I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

  

  Joanna Trollope
  • Life
  • Real

• Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Best
  • Road
  • Eye

• My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Kids

• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Facts
  • Names