Vaughter Quotes & Sayings

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Psychologically, Japanese women depend largely on each other. In their sex-segregated society, they could be criticized for living in a female ghetto, and yet they have what some American feminists are trying to build, a "women's culture" with its own customs, values and even language. — Kittredge Cherry

I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom. — John Adams

I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. — Jim Carrey

Writing is like a noble gas, it expands to fit the container it is placed in. If you give me until Thursday, I'll procrastinate until it's due. — Guy Anthony De Marco

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation. — John Tyndall

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. — Maxwell Anderson

Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past. — Ha-Joon Chang

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government. — Franklin Pierce

If these examples are typical, then 75 to 95 percent of the productivity gains from many major new technologies were realized only after decades of improvements in the implementation. — James Bessen

I think we are all children even if we have old bodies and we should make a republic that runs on the wonder of children whether we are old or young children. — Brian Doyle