Orson Scott Card Quotes

There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.

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• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
  • World
  • Experience
  • Audience

• I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Think
  • Child

• I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • America
  • Indian

• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • You
  • Acknowledge
  • Heal

• I have got everything which a politician needs.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Needs
  • Everything
  • Got

• In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Business
  • Film
  • Honor

• As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Me

• Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • You
  • Easy
  • Jury

• It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • High
  • Words
  • Government

• On the fifth day following the murder of the ship's officers, land was sighted by the lookout. Whether island or mainland, Black Michael did not know, but he announced to Clayton that if investigation showed that the place was habitable he and Lady Greystoke were to be put ashore with their belongings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Black

• When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Crush

• I was working out at a gym in Montreal when I was doing 'The Bone Collector.' I walked in and said 'Where do I sign in?' Somebody behind me, without even seeing my face, said 'Excuse me, are you on 'Star Trek'?' They recognized me from my voice.

  

  Leland Orser
  • Star
  • Gym

• I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People

• Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

  

  Jesse James Garrett
  • Book
  • Help
  • Support

• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Mind
  • Enlightenment
  • Concentration

• There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.

  

  Orson Scott Card