The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
BILL VAUGHANThe eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
BILL VAUGHANWhat they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
BILL VAUGHANWithout taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
BILL VAUGHANPerhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
BILL VAUGHANIf you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
BILL VAUGHANMaterial civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
BILL VAUGHANContraries are cured by contraries.
BILL VAUGHANWhat the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
BILL VAUGHANDiscipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
BILL VAUGHANIn the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
BILL VAUGHANLive constructively and live optimistically.
BILL VAUGHANEvery time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
BILL VAUGHANI count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
BILL VAUGHANA mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
BILL VAUGHANAre there any vegetarians among cannibals?
BILL VAUGHANOccasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
BILL VAUGHAN