Jack McDevitt Quotes

See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

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• There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Live
  • Fools

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• We must never bend too much.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Never
  • Too Much
  • Bend

• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Thought

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Busy

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Commitment

• The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Important
  • Society
  • Joy

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• It's not my style to judge anybody.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Style
  • Judge
  • Anybody

• He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Man

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • True
  • Education
  • Criticism

• People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • See
  • Privacy

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Progress

• Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Language
  • Perspective
  • Identity

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Service

• Wir Deutsche fürchten Gott, aber sonst nichts in der Welt - und die Gottesfurcht ist es schon, die uns den Frieden lieben und pflegen lässt.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Forever
  • Perspective