Jack McDevitt Quotes

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.

Jack McDevitt

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• It's better to do a film that works.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Better
  • Works

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Patience

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Focus

• On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Scenery

• I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Time
  • World
  • Strange

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Weird

• The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Past
  • Simple

• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Look
  • Too

• There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.

  

  Beck
  • Lyrics
  • Meaningful

• One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Song

• If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

  

  Christo
  • Music

• Playwright August Wilson said, "To live it life as an artist is to be willing to face the deepest parts of yourself. To wrestle with your demons until your spirit becomes larger and larger and your demons smaller and smaller.

  

  Brian McDonald
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Demons

• When you are alone, you need to take many decisions, and you can make mistakes.

  

  Christian Cota
  • Alone

• It's great we have a female Thor. It's great we have a black Captain America. But those are just optics; it's optics of change... Unless you have the structural diversity, the structural change behind the scenes - more women, more people of color actually calling the shots and editing these books - those optics won't last.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

  

  Harvey Keitel
  • Life
  • Way
  • Struggle

• The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.

  

  Jack McDevitt