Jack Vance Quotes

'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'

Jack Vance

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• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Pain

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Earth

• Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Felt

• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opinion
  • Matters
  • Insane

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Words
  • Artist
  • Fiction

• There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • See
  • Need

• I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Great
  • Technology

• It is important to note, further, that the morality which the prophets had in mind in their strenuous insistence on righteousness was not merely the private morality of the home, but the public morality on which national life is founded. They said less about the pure heart for the individual than of just institutions for the nation.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mind

• Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • People
  • Balance

• I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Time
  • Writing

• Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Wonder

• I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Catholic
  • Differences
  • Adults

• This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Famous
  • Segregation

• Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Intelligent
  • Driving
  • Luxury

• Address the people you seek, and them only.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • People
  • Address

• 'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'

  

  Jack Vance