Orson Scott Card Quotes

'I don’t plan to die for any cause,' said Jim Bowie. 'Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.'

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I completely get the drag thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Thing
  • Get
  • Drag

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

  

  Halsey
  • Up
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• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
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  • America

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • Grateful
  • Cheers

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Job

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
  • Happiness

• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Pink
  • Obsession
  • Awkward

• A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • She
  • Business
  • Night

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  

  P. L. Travers
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  • World
  • Irish

• Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• It is important that every bride feels comfortable in her chosen dress, and fabric choice has a big part to play in this.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Important

• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Time
  • Die
  • Motivational

• 'I don’t plan to die for any cause,' said Jim Bowie. 'Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
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