"I thought that automobiles were going to have……" — Jack Vance
"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
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45 Quotes by Jack Vance
Jack Vance has 45 quotes on this site.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges…
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm…
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own…
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails…
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on…
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to…
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a…
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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More Airplane Quotes
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one of 502 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or…
— Gordon Bethune
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
— Barbara Bush
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.…
— Charles Schumer
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its…
— Wernher von Braun
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I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
— George Cayley
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
— Octave Chanute
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever…
— Ernest K. Gann
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