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 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...
JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be rem...
JACK VANCE These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completel...
JACK VANCE When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfat...
JACK VANCE I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
JACK VANCE If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious...
JACK VANCE the reality is it costs a lot of money.
JACK VANCE Where was his knife, upon which he relied? He had cut cheese for their noonday meal, and had packed ...
JACK VANCE There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasu...
JACK VANCE The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
VANCE PACKARD The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful mea...
VANCE PACKARD Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should ...
VANCE PACKARD Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
VANCE PACKARD I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
VANCE JOY I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my...
VANCE JOY It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what h...
VANCE JOY The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get...
VANCE JOY I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
VANCE JOY I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
VANCE JOY I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never ...
VANCE JOY I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
VANCE JOY Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
VANCE JOY I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire....
VANCE JOY Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes fro...
VANCE JOY When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emot...
VANCE JOY It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
VANCE HAVNER Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
VANCE HAVNER You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
VANCE HAVNER I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know...
VANCE HAVNER Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
VANCE HAVNER It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hard...
VANCE HAVNER Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to...
VANCE HAVNER Both the enterprise traditional access point and the SOHO (small office/home office) segments surpas...
AARON VANCE In 2005, the market for Network Security solutions surpassed the $1 billion dollar-mark in each and ...
AARON VANCE We are seeing phenomenal growth in the SSL VPN market, with an average year-over-year increase of 40...
AARON VANCE They've been hovering right around the same revenue figure for several quarters now.
AARON VANCE I know too well how
good-bye can steal more than just the future.
TALIA VANCE The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a...
VANCE PALMER You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
VANCE HAVNER Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
VANCE PACKARD It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceasel...
VANCE PALMER Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.
MICHAEL VANCE I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of ...
VANCE HAVNER I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in...
VANCE HAVNER Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with s...
VANCE HAVNER Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
VANCE HAVNER The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to...
VANCE PALMER When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
VANCE LAW The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
VANCE HAVNER The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and F...
MICHAEL VANCE If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
VANCE HAVNER When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Prea...
VANCE HAVNER Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It look...
VANCE HAVNER If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and...
VANCE HAVNER Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with...
VANCE HAVNER When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Pre...
VANCE HAVNER It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest ...
VANCE HAVNER Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
VANCE HAVNER The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to peo...
VANCE HAVNER It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end ...
VANCE HAVNER You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against thei...
CYRUS VANCE The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up...
VANCE HAVNER ...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even so...
J.D. VANCE I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movie...
CHRIS VANCE Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly sa...
CHRIS VANCE God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken g...
VANCE HAVNER My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomati...
CYRUS VANCE The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and F...
MICHAEL VANCE You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
VANCE PACKARD In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal...
CYRUS VANCE The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the line...
CHRIS VANCE This is a person who is going to achieve bigger things in the future. She will be on the ballot one ...
CHRIS VANCE Sims did terribly badly (Tuesday). I think this is the most competitive county executive's race we'v...
CHRIS VANCE Sims should be very worried this morning,
CHRIS VANCE We will have to vigorously play defense,
CHRIS VANCE The only effect it could have is burning out our donors. I don't think that's going to happen. The p...
CHRIS VANCE We had no business being in the golf course business. We are all developers in our previous occupati...
DOUG VANCE 2005 was another strong year in both the Enterprise and Consumer Wireless LAN markets, growing 13 pe...
AARON VANCE Dallas is an extraordinary place in it's own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can...
CHRIS VANCE I told (Mobley), 'We're leaving at halftime if Kentucky is losing. Kentucky does better when I'm at ...
MIKE VANCE Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.
MIKE VANCE A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brav...
VANCE HAVNER Everybody here is an environmentalist.
CHRIS VANCE Ninety-five percent of the wheat we grind is from North Dakota. We do bring in small amounts from Mi...
VANCE TAYLOR Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of...
J.D. VANCE Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ...
J.D. VANCE Our offense was in sync in the second quarter. We were passing the ball well and moving it down the ...
VANCE COOKSEY Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ''Shake well before using.'' That is what God has to do wi...
VANCE HAVNER U.S. Policy toward the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories is unequivoc...
CYRUS VANCE Vance's Rule of 2 1/2: Any military project will take twice as long as planned, cost twice as much, ...
CYRUS VANCE If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citiz...
VANCE HAVNER Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God
VANCE HAVENER The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer
VANCE PACKARD Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use ...
VANCE MOSS God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken ...
VANCE HAVNER We drove the ball into the alleys, and that brings a lot of confidence.
VANCE ARNOLD We still don't have a lot of experience on the mound. We're trying to get kids innings and try to co...
VANCE ARNOLD Tim did a great job of competing and hitting his spots. He's one of those kids, you tell him what yo...
VANCE ARNOLD Conference-wise, we should be right back up there as one of the top two in the conference. Even afte...
VANCE ARNOLD From the outfield to the infield, we can pretty much throw a ball and get it anywhere pretty quickly...
VANCE ARNOLD Cameron's been hitting the ball real well. He's been playing great defense as well. We're really exc...
VANCE ARNOLD It was more of a true league. It was a good chance for some of our newer varsity guys like Tyler Hig...
VANCE ARNOLD Taylor did a great job on the mound. We hadn't pitched Taylor in a while and he came in and got thei...
VANCE ARNOLD This group has hit the ball real well. They go opposite field well and they're not afraid to swing t...
VANCE ARNOLD With the fall ball experience and the warm weather, we're ahead of where we were last year. We've be...
VANCE ARNOLD Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
VANCE HAVNER Going back to the early '90s, the mill ground 90 percent durum and 10 percent hard red spring wheat....
VANCE TAYLOR The statement attributed to Mr. Reiss has been mischaracterized as a threat, ... It was not. The sta...
CYRUS VANCE He (Woolf) can be dominant when he's throwing like that. When he's pitching well, he's the guy that ...
VANCE LAW We were 9-17 my sophomore year. We made a vow to turn this program around. This year our goal was 20...
VANCE COOKSEY You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their in...
CYRUS VANCE I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status ...
VANCE MCALLISTER Against Brown, we know what's on the line: the Ivy League title.
LAUREN VANCE One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the questi...
ASHLEE VANCE We were filling a void.
VANCE MOSS Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do ...
VANCE HAVNER The Republican Party needs both the moderates and the conservatives, ... If the party is viewed as t...
CHRIS VANCE ...Mom equated money with affection...but I never cared about the money. I just wanted her to be hea...
J.D. VANCE Overall sales and earnings growth were below our expectations, reflecting performance issues as well...
VANCE COFFMAN The defense of human rights has been, and continues to be, one of the principal goals of the foreign...
CYRUS VANCE In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, inte...
CYRUS VANCE We were his last resort. And when we evaluated this kid, the colonel cried.
VANCE MOSS Everybody wanted a piece of Billy the Kid's rock.
VANCE STEVENS You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
VANCE PACKARD Dino has pledged to the party, and he did that a long time ago. He will stand by us and help retire ...
CHRIS VANCE By all means. If they want to come with their lawn chairs, they are certainly welcome to that.
VANCE AGEE I would say gently and respectfully, they need to make up their minds. They need to fish or cut bait...
CHRIS VANCE It was nasty. The nastiest one, though, was when he struck out Lane on a fastball down. That's where...
VANCE WILSON Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria
VANCE PACKARD This will remove a great cause of tension in the party,
CHRIS VANCE Every day, our staff and volunteers provide a comforting presence to individuals and families facing...
NANCY VANCE I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines...
CHRIS VANCE Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens e...
DAZZY VANCE How much of our lives, good and bad, should we credit to our personal decisions, and how much is jus...
J.D. VANCE What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own...
J.D. VANCE Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and th...
VANCE LAW We all had the same goals in mind and we fund a lot of the same charities. We thought this was an id...
DOUG VANCE We are making decisions like this, out of the ordinary. You don't see other foundations do things li...
DOUG VANCE We knew we could do a good job and it would be something special that the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic ...
DOUG VANCE They couldn't get their funds, couldn't complete their funding. So we focused on another charitable ...
DOUG VANCE I'm ecstatic. I've been working on it for 10 months and I'm ready to see the green flag drop for the...
VANCE AGEE Lindsay was a teenager...at the height of that weird mixture of thinking you know everything and car...
J.D. VANCE It's just one of those quirks that comes up in the schedule and you have to deal with it. This shoul...
VANCE BELEW We already have home delivery service of our milk and dairy products that have been very well-receiv...
MARK VANCE I want him to learn to appreciate music. This was a last minute thing we decided to do just for the ...
LAUREN VANCE I think today was the big day. I think we really realized that we needed to come out in the first ha...
LAUREN VANCE We were kind of playing catch up. We were kind of satisfied to just stay with them.
LAUREN VANCE We are all disappointed in our 2-4 record right now. As a whole, our team has been inconsistent this...
LAUREN VANCE It's nice that we've all been together dancing from the beginning of the year.
MALLORY VANCE The routine is awesome. We get a good reaction from the crowd.
MALLORY VANCE It was a very difficult contest this year. The judging was very hard.
JOE VANCE We are very excited about the ratings. We worked hard all year and we had a lot of community support...
JOE VANCE In the comics, it always seems like they are trying to save
the world. It seemed like one shoul...
ASHLEE VANCE Gray can really throw ball well. He's impressive, especially being a sophomore.
VANCE BELEW We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cas...
VANCE COFFMAN We spent a lot of time in practice learning who he was. So we were ready for him every time he got t...
VANCE COOKSEY (Fatigue) certainly could've been a factor late in the game. It took a lot of energy having to fight...
VANCE DOWNS She's always the focus of the other teams defense. She makes every one around her better.
VANCE LEE They all wanted 15-20 copies of the product.
VANCE MAHAN This is going to be an event talked about for months.
VANCE PASCUA He's an institution, if you wanna know the truth. He's as good a person as you'll ever meet.
VANCE WALBERG When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a...
J. D. VANCE It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and...
J. D. VANCE I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I cam...
J. D. VANCE I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.
J. D. VANCE The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pre...
J. D. VANCE We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking ab...
J. D. VANCE Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income ta...
J. D. VANCE Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that ...
J. D. VANCE There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its bas...
J. D. VANCE Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner ...
J. D. VANCE Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire thei...
J. D. VANCE If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effec...
J. D. VANCE The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the dr...
J. D. VANCE I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses ...
J. D. VANCE It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good eco...
J. D. VANCE