Jack L. Chalker quote: "I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects."

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

Decadence is wonderful.
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...
JACK VANCE

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

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Jack L. Chalker

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

Jack L. Chalker

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