Gist Quote by Jack Vance Download Open image “I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.” — Jack Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gist Likely Nuncupatory Rhialto Likely Said Said Rhialto Speculation Speculation Said
Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“But briefly, Theresa’s case has been diagnosed as one of acute hallucinatory psychosis, brought on by a particularly difficult and prolonged adolescent psychosexual adjustment,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
It's been tested by research, that he who fucks nun will later join the church. — The Clash Copy Share Image
The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Reverend reverend is this some conspiracy? Crucified for no sins an image beneath me. Whats within our plans for life. — Pantera Copy Share Image
“As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not “radical feminism,” which the Vatican… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
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. I don't… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down… — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass of water.… — John Medina Copy Share Image
