Jack Vance Quotes

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

Jack Vance

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 28, 1916 - May 26, 2013

Topics

LifeThinkSlowCreditLateDone

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

Jerry Saltz

GreatPastArtistYoungDecadeDays

People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

Matt Busby

FootballPeoplePlanGoWithoutGet

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.

Amber Tamblyn

GodBelieveBe DifferentYouGoAct

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Stanley Hauerwas

I AmChurchUpEpiscopalHowWhich

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Coffee connects us in so many ways - to each other, to our senses, and to the earth that supports the coffee trees.

Rohan Marley

CoffeeTreesEarthUsSensesOur

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Ron Howard

GoodGreatJobChooseActingHad

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan

LeadershipPoliticalAttentionPay

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

Mirko Cro Cop

GreatTiredPrideFeelBagTrain

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Mindy Kaling

Social MediaValuePeopleFaceMedia

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

Judith Tarr

ChurchLensThroughRareEvenMuch

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Joni Mitchell

LoveYouthLookingProblemsWrong

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