Jack Vance Quotes
I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.Jack Vance
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler -
It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
Idris Elba -
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
Kaspar Hauser -
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler -
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
Omari Hardwick -
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
Jack Kevorkian -
I'm actually not on Twitter.
Rachel Bilson -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang -
I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
Fernando Torres
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
Oliver Tambo -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg -
If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
Patrick Wang -
I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
Manolo Blahnik -
I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
Warren Spector -
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
Adam Grant
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I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.
David Brock -
Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?
Phil Silvers -
Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
Flavor Flav -
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
Maurice Sendak -
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
Christian McKay -
I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
Jack Vance