Jack McDevitt Quotes
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
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We’re talking about something we all want very much to find. And that automatically makes Ed’s conclusions suspect.
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Ev was a careful man, a model of caution. He took pride in not committing to a view until all the facts were in. Which meant, of course, that he was never quite on board. Or in opposition.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
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And because she so desperately wanted it to be true, she knew she could not manage an objective judgment.
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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
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He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.
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The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.
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'I can’t imagine,' said Dupre, 'a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.'
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from.
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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.
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Well, kids are never much on history. Nor for that matter was anybody else. It had been MacAllister’s experience that most people think anything that happened before they were born didn’t count for a whole lot.
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One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
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(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
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The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth.
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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.