Jack Vance Quotes

'I am more inclined to punish Hurtiancz for his crassness,' said Ildefonse. 'But now he simulates a swinish stupidity to escape my anger.''Absolute falsity!' roared Hurtiancz. 'I simulate nothing!'Ildefonse shrugged. 'For all his deficiencies as polemicist and magician, Hurtiancz at least is candid.'

Jack Vance

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• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Chaos
  • Will
  • Winner

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Friday

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Myself
  • Genius
  • Mountain

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Like
  • Bread
  • Turkey

• My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Die
  • Successful
  • Week

• My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Church
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas

• I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Right
  • Healthy
  • Possible

• I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Family
  • High
  • Dad

• It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Eyes

• Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Today
  • Serious

• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country
  • Devil

• Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Thoughts

• The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.

  

  Larry Wall

• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Up
  • Great
  • Nice

• Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

  

  Will Wright
  • Different
  • Sides
  • Definitions

• There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

  

  Ken Starr
  • Respect
  • Excuse
  • Demands

• Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's the flashback feeling in a good way. Like I'm watching a rerun, because I've studied this defense and know what comes next. Now, that is a good feeling, when your mind is working fast because you've studied, and you realize, 'I've seen this before.'

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.

  

  Sappho
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Lying

• 'I am more inclined to punish Hurtiancz for his crassness,' said Ildefonse. 'But now he simulates a swinish stupidity to escape my anger.''Absolute falsity!' roared Hurtiancz. 'I simulate nothing!'Ildefonse shrugged. 'For all his deficiencies as polemicist and magician, Hurtiancz at least is candid.'

  

  Jack Vance