Bill Vaughan Quotes

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Bill Vaughan

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• Spiders
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• The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Beach
  • Waves
  • Hip Hop

• I myself am a former commando fighter.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Myself
  • Fighter
  • Am

• I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fight

• While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • School
  • True

• What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts-indeed, sometimes from no facts-in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody’s conscious control.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Interesting
  • Control
  • Study

• Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.Edward Smith: Thank you, Andy.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Nice

• The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Today
  • Science
  • Community

• That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Friend
  • Simple
  • Politics

• I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Money

• Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • People
  • Career

• On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton emphasized her experience. Yes, experience matters, but judgment matters more. Despite her experience, Hillary Clinton's poor decisions have produced bad results. Just think about it.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

  

  David Blaine

• You have to live the mission... love what you do.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • Live

• It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

  

  Lisa Leslie
  • Money

• I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.

  

  Jane Birkin

• Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Men

• The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

  

  Frank Carlucci
  • Management

• A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Person

• I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Powerful
  • Delay
  • Alleviate

• I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Lazy

• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  

  Walter Bonatti
  • People
  • Together
  • Reality

• The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Owl
  • Conquest
  • Spiders