Famous Quote by Orson Scott Card Download Open image “What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.” — Orson Scott Card ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Famous Time Waste Waste of time Wasting time
I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.” — Peter Duncan Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The News of the World made me more famous than being in Atomic Kitten. — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When Americans, who have no idea who I am, laugh at my jokes, it's exactly the same if someone loves you even if you're… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from. — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
