Jack McDevitt Quotes

He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.

Jack McDevitt

Trying
Guy

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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

iO Tillett Wright
- Country
- Rest
- Realize
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

Barbara Corcoran
- Up
- Time
- World
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Long
- Art
- Remember
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

Pardis Sabeti
- Writing
- Way
- Like
I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

Mal Peet
- Want
- Shoes
- Champagne
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

J. B. Priestley
- May
- Society
- Comedy