Quotes About Vance

most expeditions lacked something Vance had at his disposal: the astrolabe

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

Later, in 1962, when Vance agreed to rejoin Ball as her TV second banana on the forthcoming The Lucy Show, she made a strong stipulation: she must never again be paired with Frawley. "I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual," she recalled. "Whenever I received a new [I Love Lucy] script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn't be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

Before departing Independence, she selected a stage name: Vivian Vance. She borrowed the moniker from Vance Randolph, a member of the local theater crowd.

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

He seems to be giving his people a (mostly) gently worded lecture on their lack of willingness to work even when it appears almost pointless to do so. For that reason, the book should have been titled Hillbilly Reprimand, because Vance doesn't want to mourn his hillbilly family. He wants to make them good proletarians like they allegedly were in the twentieth century.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

It's one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn't quite capture Laurence Vance and his work. Vance is a voice crying in a soundproof sarcophagus on the moon.

A LIGHT mist condensed on Sonya Vance's windshield, turning the forested mountains

A LIGHT mist condensed on Sonya Vance's windshield, turning the forested mountains around her

Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

To Smade's Tavern in the July of 1524 came Kirth Gersen, representing himself as a locater.

From Life, Volume I, by Unspiek, Baron

Bree had explained it to us in the summary of her research. In twelfth-century French literature, the paladins, or twelve peers, were said to be the elite protectors and agents of King Charlemagne, comparable to the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legends. Paladin Inc. had been launched five years before by Vance