Orson Scott Card Quotes

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

Orson Scott Card

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• I'm going for something very raw and organic.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Something
  • Very
  • Going

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Good
  • Great
  • American

• Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Know
  • Office

• I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Work
  • Team
  • Growth

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Air
  • Streets
  • Hot

• Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Focus

• I never responded to teaching.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Never
  • Teaching

• When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Guy

• In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Peace
  • Create
  • Prosper

• For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Important
  • Listen

• I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Power
  • City

• As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Curiosity
  • Subjects
  • Surprised

• You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World

• Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Brain

• After all my thinking and praying, my decision came down to the fact that I felt obligated to do everything I could to help.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Decision

• You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Believe
  • Science

• I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Character
  • Book

• I just cannot declare the independency of Taiwan. Even if Lee Teng-hui was the president now, he could also not do it! (During Sanlih News Channel interview, 2005)

  

  Chen Shui-bian

• 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Skins
  • Sassy
  • Fishes

• All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end.

  

  Dan Uggla
  • Approach
  • Beats
  • Behind

• I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

  

  Orson Scott Card