Orson Scott Card Quotes

Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.

Orson Scott Card

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• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Process
  • Excellence
  • Days

• Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Director

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Proud
  • Competition

• First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • American
  • America
  • Canada

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Start

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Money
  • Wood
  • Corners

• I don't attend costume parties.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Parties
  • Costume
  • Attend

• I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• I am - and have always been - a Methodist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Methodist

• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Success
  • You
  • Success Is

• I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • People
  • Think
  • Years

• I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Human
  • Animals

• After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

  

  Clive Owen
  • School
  • Drama

• I will not say but that I eyed the assembly in a spirit similar to that in which William the Conqueror eyed England on his visit to Edward the Confessor, as the region of his future domain. Oh, vanity!

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Future

• Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

  

  Kallistos Ware
  • True
  • Faith

• Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. (1).

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Desire
  • Opinion

• Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.

  

  Orson Scott Card