A. E. van Vogt quote: "I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way...
A. E. VAN VOGT

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met anot...
A. E. VAN VOGT

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launch...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of...
A. E. VAN VOGT

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. VAN VOGT

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights...
A. E. VAN VOGT

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I late...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book;...
A. E. VAN VOGT

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I did not go along with the new theories that Hubbard was offering. They had a religious aspect and ...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and...
A. E. VAN VOGT

As a craftsman, I made my living at writing from the moment I crossed the line at age 20, and sold m...
A. E. VAN VOGT

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be intere...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I want to get ready, I really do, but I have a bad feeling about today," I said, lowering my voice f...
E. VAN LOWE

Don't look at me like that," said Guy.
"How am I looking at you?" I asked.
"Like I'm the G...
E. VAN LOWE

You can’t be a bad girl, unless you actually do something bad."

-Megan Barnett
E. VAN LOWE

Is this the message 'save yer own skin at all costs'? Because if that's the message, no wonder Ameri...
E. VAN LOWE

Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.
JUSTINE VOGT

The rankings had us down pretty low, but I think we're all starting to realize after these tournamen...
ADAM VOGT

It seemed like everybody was getting tired on me this weekend. I guess it's just because I've been w...
ADAM VOGT

It seems like they have a lot of guys that all work hard, and their coach pushes them pretty good. H...
ADAM VOGT

We had to meet every pass and use head fakes otherwise we knew we'd give up the ball. We didn't alwa...
JUDY VOGT

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than ...
JUSTINE VOGT

It'd be a much more expensive venture, because then you're looking at the Department of Public Aid p...
LYNDA VOGT

Life Is Too Short--So Kiss Slowly,
Laugh Insanely, Love Truly,
And Live With Passion.
ANDY VOGT

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
JUSTINE VOGT

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian
JUSTINE VOGT

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
JUSTINE VOGT

When you make a blame sandwich, you gotta be prepared to eat it yourself.
JUSTINE VOGT

He is the kind of a man that you could use as a blueprint to build an idiot
JUSTINE VOGT

I don't think there is one member of this council -- not one -- who would be influenced by a meal. I...
KATHY VOGT

I only hope to be as good of a person as my dog thinks I am.
JUSTINE VOGT

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
JUSTINE VOGT

Dyslexic satan worshipers think they're worshipping Santa.
JUSTINE VOGT

They're all good kids. We had 40 kids interested originally, but to be invited on the trip, they had...
BRYNNA VOGT

We've been brainstorming a ton of ideas, but won't know for sure the exact details until after sprin...
BRYNNA VOGT

I'm out manned on the line of scrimmage. At the beginning of the year I knew that. I have as good a ...
ERNEST VOGT

We're playing for 2006 and 2007. It's not going to get any easier for us this year. We put a lot of ...
ERNEST VOGT

He's a good player, but the guys on defense were all out of position. They all want to play like it'...
ERNEST VOGT

We managed to hold her (Wilson) to just 14 points so that's a credit to our defense. I'm just so pro...
MARK VOGT

For five years I've always known there were going to be at least two kids at open gym, two kids at e...
MARK VOGT

I told them to be disappointed in the loss, but not in themselves because they left it on the floor....
MARK VOGT

Our zone took away her touches in the middle for a while, but that kid's a player.
MARK VOGT

They're almost like daughters to me.
MARK VOGT

Right now we're covering 240 square miles, but we're going to be pulling that in related to the tran...
LYNDA VOGT

Take away her being black and her being female, she's still a great choice.
KATHY VOGT

We're a diverse community, and we need diversity represented on the bench.
KATHY VOGT

Portions of this are somewhat vague. We would need to update daily what businesses had business with...
KATHY VOGT

I don't know if it's going to work, but we need help.
KATHY VOGT

We're definitely short-handed, but I think it's just motivation for everyone who is healthy to step ...
JUDY VOGT

Walking on here was the scariest thing I've ever done, but the girls were so nice and always made me...
JUDY VOGT

The U.S. is not really speaking with a unified voice to Latin America. I don't think the administrat...
JEFF VOGT

This is going to displace the poorest of the poor without any international development plan for wha...
JEFF VOGT

It's still a mystery for a lot of people what he will do or who will actually run the government.
JEFF VOGT

The funds promised, and which may never be appropriated, are so little as to have almost no effect g...
JEFF VOGT

They will reassert the state as economic, political and social actor after decades of governments th...
JEFF VOGT

Obviously the MAS [Morales' party] doesn't want to provoke the U.S., but neither will it want to rel...
JEFF VOGT

We want to thank Bob Rice for his many years of service to the Company, as a founder, CEO, and Chair...
PATRICK VOGT

At the time, I was actually trying to go to New York to try and find something on Broadway.
PAUL VOGT

Again, we are asking any and all individuals who have not yet made a donation to please make their d...
NEVA VOGT

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
A. E. WAITE

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuck...
A. E. HOUSMAN

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divinat...
A. E. WAITE

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business ...
A. E. WAITE

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at ...
A. E. WAITE

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with act...
A. E. WAITE

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
A. E. WAITE

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws f...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A. E. HOUSMAN

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. HOUSMAN

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN

We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of '...
A. E. HOTCHNER

When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers...
A. E. HOTCHNER

Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a...
A. E. WHITHAM

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMAN

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and...
A. E. WAITE

Mass production is for the masses.
E. A. FILENE

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my k...
A. E. HOUSMAN

And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN

White in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMAN

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN

But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their...
A. E. HOUSMAN

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / N...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the ...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down a...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN

About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am...
A. E. HOUSMAN

No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Mithridates, he died old.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial r...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Because the issues debated at the convention were very contentious and very divisive, it's easy to i...
A. E. DICK HOWARD

In many ways, the U.S. Supreme Court remains the paradigm.
A. E. DICK HOWARD

We're talking about a constitution that is in its third century. That's really quite remarkable amon...
A. E. DICK HOWARD

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Honesty, without gentleness, is nothing but brutality ... Gentleness, without honesty, is nothing bu...
FR. EMMERICH VOGT

Kad ir kur pasisukčiau, susiduriu su žmonėmis, pasiilgusiais paprastumo, bet nežinančiais, nuo ...
STEPHANIE BENNETT VOGT

Veikiausiai nė vienas nepultų ginčytis, kad dauguma mūsų darome per daug ar turime daugiau daik...
STEPHANIE BENNETT VOGT

◊Būkite smalsūs. Gyvenkite domėdamiesi ir smalsaudami. Apsimeskite, kad nieko nežinote. Norėk...
STEPHANIE BENNETT VOGT

I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

BEFRIENDING THE BODY

Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and b...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gna...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug tr...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intoler...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Eighty two percent of the traumatized children seen in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network d...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary cond...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed you...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at be...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Generally the rational brain can override the emotional brain, as long as our fears don’t hijack u...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregive...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harv...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues o...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK

You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now
E'YEN A. GARDNER

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not t...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Life is simple, just be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our h...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we ...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

If there is no door to your dream, create one.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

Copied!

A. E. van Vogt

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

A. E. van Vogt

Share:

Related

More A. E. van Vogt