Orson Scott Card Quotes

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FallIntellectualEliteContinueOur

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.

John Grierson

GoodAttitudeMyselfPlanningThink

When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don't like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.

Andreja Pejic

GameEnergyStrongYouSaidFirst

Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a breeding ground for ignorance and hurtful behavior - the fact that people are so taken aback by that is a good thing because they're looking at themselves, and there's a part of me in there, too.

Michael Harney

GoodIgnorancePeopleMeLooking

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

Sloane Crosley

LovePeopleAdviceGivingKnowHow

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

Robert Dallek

HistoryNothingCertain

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Marya Mannes

DreamsRomanticRealityEndGreed

Being a woman has helped my career more than it's hindered it.

Mildred Dresselhaus

WomanCareerMoreBeingThanHelped

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

Julia Stiles

MyselfThinkYouKnowAnythingJust

I plan someday to do a one-man show based solely on the e-mails of Bellamy Young. And people will think I've written a brilliant comedy myself when, in fact, all the text will be directly from Bellamy.

Joshua Malina

MyselfPeopleThinkComedyPlan

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

Dick Bruna

FamilyBusinessPeopleArtistBecome

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

Corita Kent

TodayWorldSoupArtistGardenReal

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

Bob Fosse

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