Quote

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

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
Fans
Great
Always
Orwell
George

More quotes by Bill Vaughan

Image
In adversity man is saved by hope.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan
Image
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
Bill Vaughan
Image
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
Bill Vaughan
Image
How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Bill Vaughan
Image
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
Bill Vaughan
Image
Vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
Bill Vaughan