Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Quotes

Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

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• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Need
  • Venture

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Father

• The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Business
  • Enough
  • China

• You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• To the new International that is now in the irreversible process of preparation we can contribute the ideas of worldwide organization and the world state; the English can suggest the idea of worldwide exploitation and trusts; the French can offer nothing. ...

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • World
  • English
  • Organization

• When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Light

• People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Time

• The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People

• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Important
  • Mind

• Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Psychology

• Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Wonderful
  • Tough
  • Get

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Morning

• If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Great
  • Choices
  • Memories

• I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

  

  Michael Cunningham
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Morning

• Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.

  

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
  • Morning
  • Memories
  • Importance