Orson Scott Card Quotes

A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.

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• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Long
  • Today
  • Energy

• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Real
  • Book
  • U.S.

• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • Long
  • High
  • Constitution

• Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Me
  • Partner

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Together
  • Help
  • Moon

• But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Thought

• Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Focus
  • First

• Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Positive
  • Philosophy
  • Try

• Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Girl
  • Learning
  • Boy

• I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Fool

• The shape of something uncaring andperversely cold stands up inside a manand he finds himself completely deceived.This world’s anguish is no differentfrom the love we insist on holding back.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Up
  • World
  • Cold

• That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • World
  • Greatness

• Good and evil ! good and evil ! ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being ; and who may unthread the darker yarn ?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Good
  • May
  • Evil

• There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about blues musicians at all. … They do now, which is very groovy.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • America

• 'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Simple

• I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Work
  • You
  • Doubt

• Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • War
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.

  

  Orson Scott Card