Jack McDevitt Quotes

'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'

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• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Fun

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Support
  • Going
  • Caution

• I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Communication

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Strong

• When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Bird

• There's nothing better than hearing someone laugh.

  

  Billy Magnussen

• If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Poetry

• Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Learned
  • Example

• Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Pride

• I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Beautiful
  • Nice
  • Places

• 'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Truth