Jack Vance Quotes

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

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• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Either

• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• I don't run behind authority.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Authority
  • Run
  • Behind

• I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Point
  • Open
  • Bills

• Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Muslims
  • Jihad
  • Obligatory

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Country
  • Future
  • Picture

• Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Black

• I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Deep

• The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• If Gen. Omar el Bashir's government gives me permission to pursue Kony beyond the red line, it will only take me 30 minutes to finish him and his fighters.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Red

• 'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Drug

• The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Faith
  • Morning

• We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.

  

  Selena
  • Time
  • Music
  • Food

• I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Family
  • Energy

• I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

• The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.

  

  Kay Coles James
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Moments

• Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Value

• I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

  

  Kidada Jones
  • Disney
  • Princess

• All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Princess