Orson Scott Card Quotes

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Orson Scott Card

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• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Stars

• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Design

• I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Happy
  • Mistake
  • Amendment

• I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Technology

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Fall
  • Well
  • Pilot

• I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Think
  • Know
  • Box

• Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Support

• Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Hand
  • Proud

• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Despair

• I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Class
  • Worried
  • Love To Draw

• I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn't go to a doctor.

  

  Anne Ramsey
  • Time
  • Long

• Often when times are good and when the US is on good diplomatic terms with China, the Chinese are viewed as a bridge between the two countries.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Good
  • Chinese
  • United States

• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  

  Gaston Rebuffat
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Joy

• It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

  

  Orson Scott Card