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Ideas Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
- There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody,…
- [It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea…
- Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
- I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
- Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
- The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees,…
- With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way…
- I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
- Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't…
- Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
More Ideas Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe