Orson Scott Card Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
-
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
-
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
-
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
-
One can not impede scientific progress.
-
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
-
Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
-
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
-
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
-
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
-
If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
-
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
-
To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
-
America is a meritocracy.
-
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
-
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
-
All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
-
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.
-
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
-
The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.
-
I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.
-
How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
