Orson Scott Card Quotes

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1951

Topics

WorkCapitalismPlantYouGarden

I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I'd like to have it all.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

LoveGreatWomanPartnerWantKind

There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

Michael Gove

ElectionOutsideScottishGeneral

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

Amy Heckerling

BodyLookFeelingImagePosition

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Steve Sabol

FootballWarWorldMoreHumanGoing

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Chloe Grace Moretz

BestTryingSoccerDoneAlways

I touch the future. I teach.

Christa McAuliffe

FutureTeacherTeachTouch

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Allan Sloan

FamilySomeoneYouSayWillWay

I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.

Pierre Coffin

WalkSeeingCountryKidWithoutToy

We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires.

Paul Tonko

GovernmentShipTaxOilFairPay

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

Paul Winchell

ChildrenSeeingUnderstandRealSee

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Richard Wall

DisciplineSisterSocietySociology

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Nicolas Roeg

FatherMotherSisterWorldDownSay

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