Jack McDevitt Quotes

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.

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• I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Often

• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Stand

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Work
  • Real
  • War

• Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Language

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Big
  • Early

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Child

• During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Church
  • Singing
  • London

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Truth
  • Mirror
  • Treat

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

  

  Ice T
  • Different
  • Change
  • Intelligent

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Time
  • Different
  • Annoying

• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Race
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time