Orson Scott Card Quotes

They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.

Orson Scott Card

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• It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Good
  • May
  • Truth

• Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Remember
  • Hard
  • Drunk

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Car
  • Summer
  • Heat

• To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Live
  • Future
  • Control

• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Him

• Listening is the key to everything good in music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Good
  • Music
  • Listening

• I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Wife
  • Wedding
  • Qualities

• Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Done
  • Art
  • Want

• No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Man
  • Thanks

• I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

  

  Samm Levine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Positive

• I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Help
  • Know
  • Myself

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Consumers
  • Retail

• In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Old

• Show gratitude.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Gratitude

• ... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Business
  • Rock

• When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Pretty
  • Lost
  • Sick

• Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

  

  John Knoll
  • Real

• During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.

  

  John Marshall
  • Humanity
  • Identity

• A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• David Eddings:‏ I'm afraid that ignorance, hate, racism, and violence will be exacerbated by silence. If speaking out is not an answer then what is?Markus Persson:‏ Reading up on history, thinking for yourself, and not being an idiot.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • History

• They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.

  

  Orson Scott Card