Jack Vance Quotes

He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.

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• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
  • Problem

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Friends
  • Thought

• Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Insomnia

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Nothing
  • Being
  • Wrong

• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Theory
  • Student

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • America
  • Down

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Fear
  • Feelings
  • More

• I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • You
  • Eating
  • Eat

• I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

  

  J Mascis
  • Work
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Beginning
  • End

• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Light
  • Violence
  • Sex

• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • People
  • Lazy

• It's a terrible thing to say, and I probably shouldn't say it, but I'm a lazy person when it comes to physical exertion. I don't like gyms unless I need to for a movie or a part or a show.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Movie
  • Lazy

• He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Lazy