Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Help
  • Best

• I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • Philadelphia

• I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Study
  • Person
  • Test

• I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Animal
  • Dog

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Change
  • Popular
  • Busy

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Human

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Short
  • Speech
  • Ever

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

  

  Orson Welles
  • Genius
  • Denies

• I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • People
  • Heart
  • Pain

• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Life
  • America
  • Alone

• I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Hope
  • Doubt

• A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Men
  • Hope

• The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Collaborator

• Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Hope