Jack Vance Quotes

I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.

Jack Vance

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Die

• Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Fiction
  • Point

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Rejected

• Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Door
  • Walk
  • Citizenship

• … when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?

  

  Vanity
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I don’t say I’ve got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I’m perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don’t want people fooling about with it. ‘Leave it alone,’ I say. ‘Don’t touch it. I like it the way it is.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Soul
  • Alone

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Dream

• That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Fire

• I, the Prime Minister of Israel, care more about Palestinians than their own leaders do. Israel cares more about Palestinians than their own leaders do.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu

• We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • Country
  • War

• He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Success
  • Believes
  • Enjoys

• Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

  

  Arthur Wellesley
  • Men
  • Clever

• I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Women
  • Age
  • Fighting

• I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Clever