Jack McDevitt Quotes

During his sixty-odd years, he had found there were as many louts in the patrician classes as there were ignoramuses farther down the social spectrum.

Jack McDevitt

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• Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Home
  • Help
  • Attention

• A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Model
  • Grow

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decisions
  • Lead
  • Meetings

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Doing

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Way
  • Never
  • Strange

• Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Reading

• I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Carbon

• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Courage
  • New Things

• Ya white tee, well to me, look like a night gown, make ya mama proud, take that thang two sizes down.

  

  Outkast
  • Night
  • Proud

• I am for people. I can't help it.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • People
  • Help

• 'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Good

• Oh, I like Roger Moore - he's cheeky.

  

  Byron Howard

• I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Running
  • Film
  • Cities

• The world is changing... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • World

• In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

  

  Tiffeny Milbrett
  • Player
  • Creative
  • Games

• During his sixty-odd years, he had found there were as many louts in the patrician classes as there were ignoramuses farther down the social spectrum.

  

  Jack McDevitt