Jack Vance Quotes

Roger tried to find out all about her: he wanted, in one brief hour, to make up for a lifetime of non-acquaintance, a lifetime for all practical purposes wasted.

Jack Vance

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• I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Place
  • Just

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Children
  • Talk

• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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  • She
  • Book

• I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

  

  Zak Orth
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  • Me
  • Backstage

• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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  • Nothing
  • Building

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
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  • Music
  • Believe

• Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

  

  Ian Smith
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  • Live
  • Decision

• I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
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  • Different

• I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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  • Expect

• I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Country
  • American

• I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

  

  Lana Turner
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  • Children
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• Manuel gave it up, and shrugged. Well, let us conquer as we may, so that God be on our side. Miramon replied: 'Never fear! He shall be, in every shape and attribute.'

  

  James Branch Cabell
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  • God
  • May

• I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

  

  Mary Hart
  • Broken

• My name is not really a common one, but people always tend to mix it up, which is quite embarrassing! As there have been incidents where I would be all ready to go on stage for my performance, and the host would say, 'Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Mr Rithik.' And, I would have to remind them that it isn't Rithik but Rithvik!

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of projection. We prefer to think of China as a dystopian world that is challenging American hegemony, so we would like to think that Chinese sci-fi is all either militaristic or dystopian. But that's just not the reality of it.

  

  Ken Liu
  • People
  • World
  • American

• As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Important
  • Business
  • Job

• Roger tried to find out all about her: he wanted, in one brief hour, to make up for a lifetime of non-acquaintance, a lifetime for all practical purposes wasted.

  

  Jack Vance
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