Jack Vance Quotes

'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'

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• When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Years

• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Small

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Want
  • Years
  • Company

• Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Love
  • Positive
  • Bridge

• Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Bad
  • You
  • Ride

• Shakespeare is universal.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Universal
  • Shakespeare

• You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Quality

• For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Discipline

• For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :

  

  Imre Lakatos

• In Europe and in America, people are now more interested in the cost of quality and in systems of quality-audit. But in Japan, we are keeping very strong interest to improve quality by use of methods which you started....when we improve quality we also improve productivity, just as you told us in 1950 would happen.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • America
  • Strong

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedisaequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?

  

  Lucretius

• Life is like an aimless river The time is now again - Ceiling Unlimited (2002)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • Time
  • River

• A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Good
  • Music
  • Bad

• Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,Relieve my languish, and restore the light;With dark forgetting of my care return.And let the day be time enough to mournThe shipwreck of my ill adventured youth

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Heart
  • May
  • Growing

• Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Simple

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

  

  David Archuleta
  • She
  • Wish
  • Awesome

• 'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Clever