Top 55 Graff Quotes
#1. Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.
Orson Scott Card
#2. Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
Orson Scott Card
#3. For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.
Gavin Hood
#4. I know where The List is-my father has taken me to see it many times. Maybe for just this reason. And I know what it is: The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. And I know who I am: Daniel, son of Graff, son of Terfdon- The Alien Hunter. No last name, just Daniel X.
James Patterson
#5. Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
Orson Scott Card
#6. Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
Orson Scott Card
#7. Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Graff-'
'Not Graff,' the big man snapped, looking annoyed. 'The name is Garff-Garff!'
'Say, that's good,' the hunter said. 'Garff-Garff- that's even better than bow-wow. Do you know any other animal imitations?
Joe Millard
#8. Going to say it anyway," said Graff. "Poor fool of a boy. Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that?
Orson Scott Card
#9. That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and ... I don't even know which of them is me. - Hyrum Graff
Orson Scott Card
#10. But the officer stood up and stepped across the room to Ender. He held out his hand. My name is Graff, Ender. Colonel Hyrum Graff. I'm director of primary training at Battle School in the Belt. I've come to invite you to enter the school.
Orson Scott Card
#11. The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a truly remarkable watch that illustrates our all-consuming passion for diamonds. The Hallucination has made my diamond dream a reality.
Laurence Graff
#12. My assignment from Graff, thought Theresa, is to become an assassin in order to protect my son. And the truly horrifying thing is that I'm not questioning whether to do it, but how. And when.
Orson Scott Card
#13. Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
Orson Scott Card
#14. Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order from a wine list and some who don't. I like wine, but I prefer the company of beer drinkers any day.
Keir Graff
#15. Find something you'd want to keep doing forever," she said, "even if you stink at it. And then if you're lucky, with lots of practice, then one day you won't stink so much.
Lisa Graff
#16. You can't get where you're going without being where you've been.
Lisa Graff
#17. Life is the grandest adventure one can go on, isn't it?' said the giant kindly (he seemed to be a very friendly giant). 'What else could a person ask for than just to be alive?'
Will knew exactly what else a person could ask for. 'Monsters,' he said. 'And cake.
Lisa Graff
#18. The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
Garrett Graff
#19. Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer to sink in. They seem to meander a bit before choosing which mind to settle into.
Lisa Graff
#20. I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.
Lisa Graff
#21. There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils.
Lisa Graff
#22. Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.
Orson Scott Card
#23. Minutes are sometimes like eternities if they are let go.
Stephen Graff
#24. One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.
Lisa Graff
#25. And when thoughts wiggle their way in, sometimes it can be very difficult for them to wiggle out again.
Lisa Graff
#27. And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.
Lisa Graff
#28. I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
Garrett Graff
#29. We didn't install the [Code Red] patch on those DMZ systems because they were only used for development and testing. - Anonymous client, shortly after spending 48 continuous hours removing 2001's Code Red worm from internal corporate servers
Mark G. Graff
#31. The Longstockings are eight children's and young adult writers. We all came out of the New School MFA program, and we meet regularly to critique each other's work.
Lisa Graff
#32. I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.
Lisa Graff
#33. When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.
Laurence Graff
#34. I am just a ballplayer on vacation. Why are these things happening to me ?
Hal Graff
#35. My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her backyard, and one of my favorite memories is of picking lemons together and then baking lemon bars.
Lisa Graff
#36. War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget.
Robert Graff
#37. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.
Lisa Graff
#38. Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while," Calista told me. "Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.
Lisa Graff
#39. You should do something because you love it, not just because you're good at it.
Lisa Graff
#40. I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.
Lisa Graff
#41. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#42. We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
Orson Scott Card
#43. He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.
Henry Graff
#44. Sir, your baseball career may be over. You need to find a new profession. Gatewood answered, I've heard that before. (He had always come back. He would prove them wrong again.) (From Love and Death at the Encierro)
Hal Graff
#45. Her favorite animal was sea lions. Mine was giraffes. Her favorite movie was Casablanca, which she said was old and black-and-white and very romantic. She tried to tell me what it was about, but it all sounded about as much fun as eating burned bread crusts.
Lisa Graff
#46. Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
Lisa Graff
#47. I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.
Lisa Graff
#48. When you do choose to speak, she told me, speak truths.
Lisa Graff
#49. Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?
Lisa Graff
#51. Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.
Lisa Graff
#52. I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
Lisa Graff
#53. Whatever nature gives us, we explore & we build on.
Laurence Graff
#54. Some people aren't good at anything. Some people just really like donuts.
Lisa Graff
#55. When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
Lisa Graff
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