Jack Vance Quotes

'Are you yourself a Christian?'The young man made a negative sign. 'The concepts of religion baffle me.''This inscrutability is perhaps not unintentional,' said the ex-priest. 'It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.'

Jack Vance

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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Govern

• I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Earth
  • Religion

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Always
  • Group
  • Fair

• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Cooking

• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • School
  • Man

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Earth

• Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Education
  • Serious

• Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Germany
  • Coming
  • Invest

• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Hell

• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Bad
  • Corruption
  • Dictatorship

• I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • American
  • Top
  • Hat

• I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • Good
  • Important
  • Healthy

• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Dad
  • Years
  • Corporation

• We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Up

• Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Money
  • Me

• I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.

  

  Meredith Baxter
  • Facts
  • Recognition
  • Later

• 'Are you yourself a Christian?'The young man made a negative sign. 'The concepts of religion baffle me.''This inscrutability is perhaps not unintentional,' said the ex-priest. 'It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Christian