Orson Scott Card Quotes
I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
-
I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
-
In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
-
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
-
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
-
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
-
I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
-
We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
-
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
-
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
-
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
-
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
-
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
-
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
-
'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
-
Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.
-
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
-
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
-
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
-
Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.
-
As for design, I gravitate to traditional styles but mix it with an element of surprise. Whether it's a big sash bow in the back or an unexpected fabric, it all needs to work together.
-
My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.
-
I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.
-
I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
