Jack Vance Quotes
The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.Jack Vance
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
Ireland Baldwin -
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Salman Khan -
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides -
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney -
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
Samantha Power -
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Walter Cronkite
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
Ziad Doueiri -
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
Patrick Macnee -
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
Sam Neill -
The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
Harry Browne -
Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
Vasily Grossman -
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne -
It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
Olga Kurylenko -
My friend, singer Kaya Jones of the Pussycat Dolls, told me she could finally come out of the closet and wear her Trump 2016 campaign shirt.
Joy Villa -
The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
Jack Vance