Jack Vance Quotes

I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.

Jack Vance

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• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • People
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Fault

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Great
  • Red
  • Wine

• I think often that God is guiding me.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • God
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Los Angeles
  • Los

• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Peace
  • Myself

• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Always
  • Right
  • Still

• I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Free

• Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Look
  • Will
  • Dresses

• The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Live
  • Moments
  • See

• I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Person
  • Same

• Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Books
  • Quite

• Even though Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century who saw what must be the mainsprings of the extended order, Mises was the choice technician, and no one was better at articulating the primacy of the individual and the need to define and nurture individual rights.

  

  Vernon L. Smith

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• I just want to help people become winners. That's what I'm about. I'm about winning.

  

  Avery Johnson
  • Help
  • Winning
  • About

• I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead', and I find I can't.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.

  

  Zana Briski
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Humanity

• I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

  

  Ernest Rhys
  • Tears
  • Rain
  • Sunlight

• I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.

  

  Jack Vance