Jack Vance Quotes

I give dignity second place to expedience.

Jack Vance

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Couple
  • Baby
  • Doing

• You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Want
  • Sick

• There is something about poverty that smells like death.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Death
  • Like
  • Poverty

• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Saying

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Problem

• I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Help
  • Free
  • Diet

• No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • You
  • Answers

• Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Me
  • New

• What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Environmental

• Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

  

  Zell Miller
  • People
  • Man
  • Deep

• My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Fun
  • Style
  • Ugly

• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Quality
  • Literature
  • Start

• Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Short

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• Oh how the VacancyLaughed at them rushing by.'Turn again, flesh and brain,Only yourselves again!How far above the apeDiffering in each shape,You with your regularMeaningless circles are!'

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Brain

• The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Peace

• If we surround ourselves with people who are successful, who are forward-moving, who are positive, who are focused on producing results, who support us, it will challenge us to be more and do more and share more. If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the greatest gift that anyone can hope for.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Support
  • Moving

• Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

  

  H. W. Brands
  • ERA
  • Warner Studios
  • Silent movies

• If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!

  

  Paul Walker
  • Lost

• I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.

  

  Pink
  • Time
  • Good
  • Hair

• I give dignity second place to expedience.

  

  Jack Vance