Baron Vaughn Quotes

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

It doesn't really bother me if people misunderstand me. It's cool, but you can't do anything about it.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

A mutual misunderstanding.

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