Quote

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

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
Sanity
Accomplishment
Kept
Pretty
Went
Times
Difficult
Proudest

More quotes by Bill Vaughan

Image
That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
Bill Vaughan
Image
There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.
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
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
Bill Vaughan
Image
Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
Bill Vaughan
Image
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
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
Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
Bill Vaughan
Image
As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, Anything I can do for You today, Lord?
Bill Vaughan
Image
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
Bill Vaughan