Orson Scott Card Quotes
Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.Orson Scott Card
Quotes to Explore
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
Zac Brown Band -
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
Lars von Trier -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond -
I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
Rachel Nichols
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
Jack Nicklaus -
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Jack Finney -
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
Garry Marshall -
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
Fay Godwin -
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
Garth Brooks
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison -
You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
Kaki King -
I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
Vin Diesel -
Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
Finn Wittrock -
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Maxwell Maltz -
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
Fanny Burney -
We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.
Gemma Cairney -
The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
I. L. Peretz -
Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
Orson Scott Card