Orson Scott Card Quotes

It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.

Orson Scott Card

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• When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • College
  • Thought

• I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Another

• I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
  • Me
  • Weight

• I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Preparation
  • Dwell

• I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hard

• I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Twitter

• I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Friends
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • History
  • Nation
  • Conviction

• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Loss
  • China
  • Software

• Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Interesting
  • Like
  • Story

• When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Happy
  • Doing

• I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Hope
  • Forever
  • Acting

• 'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Action

• Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• I have thought long and deeply about the post of Foreign Secretary and have decided to offer it to Peter Carrington who – as I am sure you will agree – will do the job superbly.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Long
  • Job

• The fool hath said … The fool hath said And we, who deemed him wise, We, who believed that Thou wast dead, How should we seek Thine eyes?How should we seek to Thee for power, Who scorned Thee yesterday? How should we kneel in this dread hour? Lord, teach us how to pray.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Power
  • Eyes
  • Wise

• There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Business

• When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Left
  • Shield
  • Prussia

• I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Old

• I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Pretty

• I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

  

  James Carville
  • Career

• I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.

  

  Orson Scott Card