Orson Scott Card Quotes

He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.

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• There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Past
  • Son
  • Thought

• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Right
  • Read

• I've never hankered for any role.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Never
  • Role
  • Any

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Stress

• The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Year
  • Oil

• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Storytelling

• I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Up
  • Writing
  • She

• My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Door
  • Two
  • Neighbor

• When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • High
  • Want
  • Always

• You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Power
  • True

• I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • I Can
  • Pace

• Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fun
  • House
  • Black

• The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time. He wanted to expel the Jews.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Time

• In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Deep

• 'Tanner, are you insane?''Very probably several kinds of insane,' I said. 'But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Happy

• David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Great

• I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Myself
  • More
  • Iceland

• Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

  

  Edward Dahlberg
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Character
  • Parent
  • Building

• My degree was in opera.

  

  Kelli O'Hara

• Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Plan
  • Freeze
  • Punched

• He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.

  

  Orson Scott Card