Jack Vance Quotes

'The contingency is remote.' (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)

Jack Vance

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• Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Music
  • Expect

• I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • Period

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Beautiful
  • Sports
  • Air

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Day
  • Leader

• The great object is that every man be armed.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Great
  • War
  • Man

• I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Life
  • Up
  • Parents

• The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Feel
  • Trick

• To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Me
  • Always
  • Never

• Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Against

• I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • May
  • Small

• One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Up
  • Safety

• If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature

• Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Perception

• I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Effort
  • Criticism

• People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • People
  • Different
  • Learning

• Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul
  • Action
  • Love Is

• Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Way
  • Shows
  • Phenomenology

• 'The contingency is remote.' (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)

  

  Jack Vance