Orson Scott Card Quotes

Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Day

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Question

• That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Age
  • Political
  • Religion

• When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • You
  • Just

• Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • World
  • Future
  • Success

• I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Body

• All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Opinion
  • Flying
  • Laugh

• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Artist

• My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Family
  • War
  • Father

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  

  Ina Garten
  • World
  • She
  • Job

• Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Know
  • Play
  • Win

• There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • War
  • Ugly
  • Civil War

• Writing has to support itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Support
  • Itself

• I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked out that I'm talking to the girl from 'Cremaster.' For the rest of my life, that movie will be playing in a museum somewhere. I never could have expected that huge response.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

  

  Cote de Pablo

• I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • Good
  • Help
  • Nice

• A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

  

  John Milton
  • Profound
  • Gulf
  • Serbonian

• Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?

  

  Orson Scott Card