Quotes About Orson

We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.

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

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, " said Citizen."Oh my, " said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

But this later bit of bilocation-by-editing (Welles in Paris prompting Elmyr in Ibiza) also blatantly reminds you of what the editing room suggests: Orson has orchestrated everything to create, not a "normal" documentary, but a satire on the mind-set that believes in documentaries. Just like the "war of the worlds" satirized those who believe in official media versions of the news.

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

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

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.

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

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.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

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.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen. Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

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

I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

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.