Orson Scott Card Quotes

I wanted your songs.You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.

Orson Scott Card

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• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Me
  • Attitude

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Way
  • Me
  • Person

• I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Growing
  • Always
  • Feel

• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Military
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Imagination

• I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • Moments
  • Win
  • Rap

• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reflection

• Ask the locals. They can point you in the direction of the area's shopping district where you'll be sure to find something different and unique that pleases you.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Shopping

• Sultan Aladdin… had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry… their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Rest
  • Chinese

• This is the president that looked in the soul of Putin see George W. Bush's quote above, and I could have told him, he was a KGB agent. By definition he doesn't have a soul. I mean, this is a waste of time, right? This is nonsense, but this is the world we're living in right now.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

  

  An Wang
  • Success

• I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Family
  • Happy

• I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

  

  David Hewson

• When it applies to the Olympics and making a decision, I have to claim Australia as my country.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Country
  • Decision

• If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Attraction

• I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Laugh
  • Judged
  • Mistaken

• When you're in survival mode, you numb yourself.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Survival

• I wanted your songs.You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.

  

  Orson Scott Card