Orson Scott Card Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
-
The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
-
I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
-
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
-
We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn't mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really - should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.
-
The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
-
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
-
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
-
'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.
-
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
-
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
-
I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
-
The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
-
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
-
The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.
-
Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
-
My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
-
When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'
-
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
-
As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.
-
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
-
The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.
-
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
-
'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
