Orson Scott Card Quotes
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
Quotes to Explore
-
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
-
I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
-
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
-
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
-
If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
-
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
-
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
-
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
-
Society becomes how we behave.
-
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
-
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
-
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
-
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
-
I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
-
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
-
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
-
So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
-
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
-
If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
-
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.
-
One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.
-
There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.
-
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
