Jack Vance Quotes

You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.

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• The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

  

  B. B. King
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Start

• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Voice

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Never Stop

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Myself

• From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Stop
  • Best

• Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Done
  • Help

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Think
  • Stop

• When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Happy
  • Stop
  • Story

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• As long as I feel like I'm helping kids get better, I don't see why I should stop.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Long
  • Why
  • Kids

• When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in D.C.: One was the enormous poverty around the capital at that time - it was 1973, '74 - and I was stunned by people literally living in poverty, with holes in their houses and other things.

  

  Joe Morton
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

  

  Elyn Saks
  • Stop

• I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • People
  • Done
  • Cold

• I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Night
  • Theatre

• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Women
  • Wife

• You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Stop