Jack Vance Quotes

Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

Jack Vance

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Day

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Age
  • Doing
  • New York

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
  • Look
  • Golf

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Man
  • Speak
  • Prince

• I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Relationship
  • Person

• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Real
  • Nice

• Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • May
  • Truth

• I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

  

  Neal Schon
  • People
  • Guy
  • Alone

• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Hero

• It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Words

• Children are the keys of paradise.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Children
  • Paradise

• Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Death