Jack Vance Quotes
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.Jack Vance
Quotes to Explore
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Orlando Bloom -
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant -
Africa has no future.
V. S. Naipaul -
Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
Daniel Barenboim -
Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
Larry Wilmore
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
Daisy Ridley -
I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain.
Barry Silbert -
John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack Obama -
It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
Lady Gaga
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust -
Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'
Patrick Ewing -
I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.
Jacob Artist -
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
Gay Talese -
There are three fountains In the mountain of roses, There is a Caer of defence Under the ocean’s wave. Illusive greeter, What is the porter’s name?
Taliesin
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Desiderius Erasmus -
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Many young poets, nowadays, are insured against everything. For them poetry is a game like court tennis or squash racquets - one they learned at college - and they play it with propriety, as part of their social and academic existence; their poems are occasional verse for which life itself is only one more occasion.
Randall Jarrell -
The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive backwash of receding manuscript culture. (p. 170)
Marshall McLuhan -
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
Jack Vance