Quotes About Scott

I'm never going to be inspired by some obscure film, which isn't to say I don't enjoy that sort of thing. I just want to share my work with everyone.

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things." Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time in your life.

I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak.

Could you possibly be a little more incoherent? asked Olivenko. There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's not what you have in mind.

The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.

Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man.

the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

That's the problem with Peter, said Theresa. Only the one? said Peter.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming, said Ram. We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.

We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD," Bernard said. "Really?" said Dap. "I didn't know he was signed onto the system.

Besides," said Rigg-the-killer, "I don't want to leave the future of the human race on both planets in the tiny little hands of the sentient mice of Odinfold.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.

you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT. LET ME KISS IT. —BERNARD "I didn't write that message!" Bernard shouted.

Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?

If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment.