Jack Vance Quotes

Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.

Jack Vance

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• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Loved

• Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • God
  • Believe
  • Job

• I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Value
  • Successful

• You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • American
  • You
  • College

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • School
  • Parents
  • Faith

• When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Together
  • Relationship

• I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Responsibility
  • Identity

• I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Death
  • Machinery
  • Shall

• I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Always

• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Good
  • Free
  • Being

• Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Unseen

• I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Myself

• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Deep
  • Goal
  • Path

• The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Healthy
  • Conservative

• The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Reality
  • Speak
  • Self

• I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • Technology
  • Horse
  • Regret

• I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.

  

  ASAP Ferg

• Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.

  

  Jack Vance