Jack McDevitt Quotes

Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.

Jack McDevitt

• People
• Experience

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• I keep in touch with what's real.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Real
  • Keep
  • Touch

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Fun
  • Movie

• I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

  

  OMI
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Hidden

• No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Want
  • Singing
  • Artist

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Community
  • Never
  • Lucky

• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Perfection

• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Kid

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Days

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?'

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Fear

• I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Dark
  • Bitter

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • End
  • Will

• As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Experience