Mazer Quotes

#1. 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

Orson Scott Card

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

Orson Scott Card

#3. Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Orson Scott Card

#4. He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

Orson Scott Card

#5. A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room.

Orson Scott Card

#6. The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)

Orson Scott Card

#7. Home is where the heart is.

Anne Mazer

#8. I don't have a problem with my temper.

Tommy Lee

#9. I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'

Angel Haze

#10. Friendship ... is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

Norma Fox Mazer

#11. This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people ... The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#12. True success is not defined by how much money do I make, how well do I speak, how well do I deal with the subjects I deal with," he says. "But how great of a father I am.

Shane Snow

#13. He told you not to cry, but tears keep leaking out of your eyes. And you're glad, because those tears belong to you. They're yours. Your tears. He can't have them. He can't touch them. They're all yours. (182)

Norma Fox Mazer

#14. I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.

Dan Mazer

#15. In truth, the unicorn was me - the me I wished I could be - if only I dared.

F.F. White

#16. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or social pressure.

Richard Rohr

#17. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Charles Dickens

#18. I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible ... something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.

Norma Fox Mazer

#19. I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy for them to experiment and try things and give it a go. To me, it's important.

Dan Mazer

#20. I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.

Dan Mazer

#21. I will wear any skin to get in.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

Norma Fox Mazer

#23. If I weren't acting I'd be a very unhappy, unfulfilled woman.

Michael Hyatt

#24. Maybe that's what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

Courtney Milan

#25. I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

Dan Mazer

#26. Its my son again. Ja its Emory, God be thanked.

Harry Mazer

#27. I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all in all a joyous experience. To me, the key to directing, to be honest, is just surround yourself with brilliant people and let them do their thing

Dan Mazer

#28. I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card

#30. We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

David Axelrod

#31. That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."
I never wanted to leave his side-my sure song for so long. Now? His eyes are stone changed. Just looking at them hurts my heart.

Norma Fox Mazer

#32. All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Norma Fox Mazer

#33. Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I'm sick of this poem,
you probably are too.

Anne Mazer

#34. Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!

Mehmet Murat Ildan