Jack Vance Quotes

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.

Jack Vance

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• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Thought

• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Poetry
  • Beauty
  • Themes

• In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Decision

• My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • She
  • Texas

• Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Future
  • Success
  • Carry

• There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

  

  Beck
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Genius

• 'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Fan
  • Tendency
  • Sci-Fi

• I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Career
  • Attention

• The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fight

• 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

• Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Understand
  • Our
  • Respective

• I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I have a cat and a dog. They don't really get along, but I think they get along when no one is looking.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Think
  • Dog
  • Cat

• And in that town a dog was found,As many dogs there be,Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,And curs of low degree.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Dog
  • Puppy

• I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Live
  • Community

• There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.

  

  Jack Vance