Decadence is wonderful.
Jack L. Chalker
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S...
JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply.
"Don't curse h...
JACK L. CHALKER ...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationali...
JACK L. CHALKER Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.
JACK L. CHALKER Patrick embodies all the wonderful things that Jack Donohue stood for,
DAVE JOHNSON Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON LOVE is only-(L)ive (O)ut positi(VE) or (L)ots (O)f +VE
ANUJ SOMANY Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.
And
Color is spelt L-O-V-E.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS When the storytelling in a culture goes bad the result is decadence.
ARISTOTLE I think Gummy Bears should be the universal symbol for peace, because peace leads to prosperity, pro...
JAROD KINTZ Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
LARRY DRAKE If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack N...
JORDI MOLLA The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER The other one is 'asked' after 'Jack', ... Jack asked.
GEORGE GUIDALL The other one is 'asked' after 'Jack'. Jack asked.
GEORGE GUIDALL The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathe...
JAMES THURBER The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathe...
DAVID SARNOFF Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. BALLARD America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
OSCAR WILDE The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is a...
JAMES THURBER We revel in the laxness of the path we take.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the ...
NOVALIS Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible...
RACHILDE It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent t...
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS (Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always ...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
PAUL VERLAINE From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,
JACQUES BARZUN the most incomparably greatest and most astute psychologist of decadence.
HEINRICH MANN He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have found reading the Bible inspiring and entertaining. If I didn't know better, I would swear th...
BOBBY W. MILLER An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator...
LLOYD BENTSEN Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?
L: Damn you, Kira...
TSUGUMI OHBA I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Don't believe everything you hear
SARA SHEPARD Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.
H. L. MENCKEN The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;<...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a...
E.M. FORSTER Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance ...
WILL DURANT The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
RéMY DE GOURMONT Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime....
IWAN GOLL Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful scr...
KEANU REEVES Decadence: The Passing of Personal Virtue and Its Replacement by Political and Psychological Slogans...
LONDON SCHOOL This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose?
Algernon. Yes, and a perfe...
OSCAR WILDE I played with Jack, and I tied Jack,
STEWART CINK to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascendin...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world ...
L. FRANK BAUM Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN He is a Jack of all trades.
UNKNOWN I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
J. K. ROWLING l do desire we be better strangers
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
JESSE METCALFE There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter w...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER (Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandon...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgus...
OCTAVE MIRBEAU The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometime...
ALFRED DE MUSSET Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback l...
PETER WATTS You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your o...
ALFRED DE MUSSET America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touchi...
JOHN O'HARA America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touchin...
JOHN O'HARA Don’t worry, says Ike, I didn’t do yer pretty face no harm. I should of though. After what you d...
MOIRA YOUNG I know that look.” Jack shook his head ruefully. “Doan worry; she’ll
give you your balls ...
KRESLEY COLE Carla ... The Jack Paar Show.
BARBRA STREISAND Move fast, travel light, an never tell 'em your real name.
MOIRA YOUNG and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Jack Benny.
STAN FREBERG [Jack] Nicholson is an actor and loves to act.
ROB REINER Jack (Tiller) is a good figure in the community.
MARK MCCOY America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th...
ALISTAIR COOKE Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose. - L
TSUGUMI OHBA The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game.
TIM FINCHEM You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.
LUCILLE BALL To agree on keeping a status quo that can't be kept has nothing to do with consensus. It's decadence...
HILMAR KOPPER People like Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Jack London and Upton Sinclair were wonderful w...
HOWARD ZINN To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
MAGIC JOHNSON Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I prayed and asked God to remove the Jack out of my box, and not only did he remove the Jack, but he...
SUSIE L HILL With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
-Jack Nicholson
JACK NICHOLSON I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
BENICIO DEL TORO She is a wonderful, wonderful mother.
JAMES COLLINS Real Love is like an Immigrant it take you out of your comfort zone.
L Jennel Stephens
LATOYA J. STEPHENS History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon...
CAMILLE PAGLIA D.D.L.P. - Don't Die Lacking Purpose.
also Dedrick D. L. Pitter
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I grab
a small container
of glitter.
Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S...
JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply.
"Don't curse h...
JACK L. CHALKER ...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationali...
JACK L. CHALKER Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.
JACK L. CHALKER Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
JACK L. WARNER Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L Your cynical ways define your soul
as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE Place your attention 6 inches above your crown.
God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
L. FILLOON Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia...
L. SWETENHAM Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
L BERTSCH Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ...
L. ESTRANGE We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L. Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L. Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L. The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L. Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
LAURA L. You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR I’m not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed,...
L. JAYNE I think that the play is doing good work. And the volunteers, not only the audience, have grown from...
BOB L. That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L. We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L. Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L. There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L. It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L. In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L. Mais ça veut dire quoi d'abord "mon livre", ton livre ? Que tu l'as acheté ? Qu'on te l'a donné ?...
MéLISSANDRE L. I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L. We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE Film allows you to see life differently, or see life you've never experienced, ... When it does that...
L. SPARKS The fair has worked hard to provide a family atmosphere over the past 10 years, ... We encourage eve...
L. SPARKS The addition of Beanstalk to the Omnicom network will further expand the services that we offer clie...
L. HARRISON It would have been easy simply to take another job somewhere else. But that wasn't Bernie Marcus. He...
L. HARRISON What enables one person to launch a business at fifty when other people, faced with being laid off, ...
L. HARRISON 'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
L. ESTRANGE It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. ESTRANGE Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to corr...
L. ANTHONY Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world...
JACK HERER I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
JACK WHITEHALL With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'...
JACK REED The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils.
JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will.
JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
JACK CANFIELD If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma...
JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea...
JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att...
JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
JACK ZIPES In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration ...
JACK ZIPES I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
JACK ZIPES 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their...
JACK ZIPES Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ...
JACK ZIPES The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ...
JACK ZIPES Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfu...
JACK ZIPES What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th...
JACK ZIPES Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
JACK WILD I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business h...
JACK WILD I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a...
JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
JACK WILD I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Stree...
JACK WILD It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar...
JACK WILD There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
JACK WILD At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly t...
JACK WILD My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
JACK WILD I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
JACK WHITTAKER I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
JACK WHITTAKER Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&...
JACK WHITEHALL I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
JACK WHITEHALL Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no...
JACK WHITEHALL My dad doesn't hug me enough!
JACK WHITEHALL I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I ...
JACK WHITEHALL My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc...
JACK WHITEHALL I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
JACK WHITEHALL I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm...
JACK WHITEHALL I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
JACK WHITEHALL There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
JACK WHITEHALL I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up.
JACK WHITEHALL Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public scho...
JACK WHITEHALL I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha...
JACK WHITEHALL Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
JACK WHITEHALL When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck te...
JACK WHITEHALL Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the sa...
JACK WHITEHALL I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ...
JACK WHITEHALL If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
JACK WHITEHALL I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is ...
JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
JACK WHITEHALL When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
JACK WHITEHALL I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in ...
JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
JACK WHITEHALL I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
JACK WHITEHALL If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ...
JACK WHITEHALL Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo...
JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
JACK WELCH There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ...
JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
JACK WELCH Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus...
JACK WELCH A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...
JACK WELCH Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone.
JACK WELCH If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
JACK WARNER 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young...
JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &...
JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate...
JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak...
JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On...
JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la...
JACK WAGNER We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ...
JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou...
JACK WAGNER My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe...
JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
JACK WAGNER Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ...
JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f...
JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years...
JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it...
JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use...
JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
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