Quote

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Bill Vaughan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Another
Standard
Hater
Anything
Witty
Conformist
Observation
Confronting
Worse
Prevailing
Standards
Dissent
Funny
Hates
Hate
Conform
Nonconformist
Doesn
Conformity
Nonconformity

More quotes by Bill Vaughan

Image
The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
Bill Vaughan
Image
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Letters should be easy and natural.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
Bill Vaughan
Image
It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.
Bill Vaughan
Image
It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.
Bill Vaughan
Image
We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
Bill Vaughan
Image
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
Bill Vaughan
Image
I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
Bill Vaughan
Image
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.
Bill Vaughan
Image
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
Bill Vaughan
Image
There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
Bill Vaughan
Image
I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
Bill Vaughan
Image
I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy
Bill Vaughan