Orson Scott Card Quotes

'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.

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• I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • History
  • Nations

• I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Stand

• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Help
  • I Can
  • Defense

• The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Always
  • Magic
  • Creation

• Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Career
  • You
  • Effort

• In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Something
  • Say
  • India

• Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Bad
  • Idea
  • California

• I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Guy
  • Understanding
  • Hero

• Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Blessing

• It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure

• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Men

• I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

  

  Warren G. Harding

• One thing about martial arts: People can say this fight game is dangerous and its brutal but my mind is strong. I'm fit in body and mind and that's something that not a lot of other careers can give to a person.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn’t be able to see my feet.

  

  Katy Perry
  • God
  • Remember

• It's funny, I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Funny
  • Stupid
  • Petty

• The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.

  

  Anohni

• There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Together
  • Team

• Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Today
  • Breathe

• With regard to politics and the character of princes and great men, I think I am very moderate. My views of things are more conformable to Whig principles; my representation of persons to Tory prejudices. Nothing can so much prove that men commonly regard more persons than things, as to find that I am commonly numbered among the Tories.

  

  David Hume
  • Great
  • Men
  • Character

• 'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.

  

  Orson Scott Card