Quote by Jack Vance Download Open image ““Two hours of loose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch.”” — Jack Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Nothing can play havoc with your sense of scale better than looking deeply into the night skies. It can leave you feeling immense and… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
“Life is like a balance scale. If it's always equalized why would we have it.” — nicholas boegel Copy Share Image
“Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind… — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
“When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.” — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
“Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore & enjoy.… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“It takes a kind of arrogance to think everything in the world can be measured and weighed with our scientific instruments.” — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“What we all have discovered together, only rarely in classrooms, is that the passage of years guarantees very little in the way of answers,… — Jane Howard Copy Share Image
“The nature of our lives rarely reflects the depth of our abilities.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“[On philosophizing] Sometimes you have to talk to find out what you think.” — Dan Kieran Copy Share Image
“It's like there is a huge balance scale in the sky, weighing the relative strength of two opposing fields of Influence. One side represents… — James Redfield 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