Jack Vance Quotes

'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'

Jack Vance

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• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Different
  • Think
  • Understanding

• I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Environment
  • Concerts
  • Intrigues

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • Look
  • Shoes

• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Age
  • Suffering

• You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • You
  • Without

• When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Career
  • Film
  • Goal

• My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • She
  • Mom
  • Hero

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • World
  • Want
  • Shoes

• I'm a writer first and a singer second.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • First
  • Writer
  • Singer

• There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • High
  • Running

• I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Law

• The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.

  

  Keith Stanfield
  • People
  • Different

• That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Dream

• People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Invest

• 'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'

  

  Jack Vance