Jack Vance Quotes

The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?

Jack Vance

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• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Success
  • Learn

• I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Choice
  • Pizza

• Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Kids
  • Eating

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Childhood

• People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Artist
  • inspirational

• Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Me
  • Find

• Maintenance is terribly important.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Important
  • Maintenance

• My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Think
  • Giving

• Obviously I'm fast, and I'm going to have to utilize that speed, but I'm also going to have to be smart. I'm also strong, and I have a punch, so I'm going to have to use all my qualities to be able to fight against Angulo, and I just feel whoever's the best prepared that night is going to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Night
  • Strong
  • Best

• The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Education

• Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen

• The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life

• I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • Reality
  • Comedy

• But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Larry Flynt

• Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to drop it because it was really risky. The budget we proposed was a lot higher than they expected, they wanted to [drop it]. After all, it's a philosophical book and a literature property, it's not Batman.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

  

  Nickolas Ashford
  • Running
  • Sweat
  • Microphones

• Many women try to advance in their careers by having all the answers; by being the go-to person for information and advice; or by building expertise in a particular field. However, as they progress, gain broader responsibilities, and grow into leadership roles, they realize that their span of control is too vast to be able to know every answer.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Women
  • Control
  • Progress

• The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?

  

  Jack Vance