Quotes About Peter Wiggin

#1. Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?

Dan Rather

#2. In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.
"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"
No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

Russ Feingold

#4. Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

Carl Honore

#5. Since I don't have actual authority over anybody, Petra, how can it possibly matter if I'm not legitimately authorized?

Orson Scott Card

#6. Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Lynn Coady

#7. Be thankful for all that you have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Until al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Hizballah had killed more Americans than had any terrorist group in history.

Robert M. Gates

#9. You honor our humble abode,' said Bean.
'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile.

Orson Scott Card

#10. Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Steve Earle

#11. Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.

Orson Scott Card

#12. Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.

Henry Rollins

#13. I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Tom Stoppard

#14. Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

J.D. Robb

#15. Be the sun breaking through the clouds.

A.D. Posey

#16. Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.

Orson Scott Card

#17. I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

Andrea Arnold

#18. What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.

Orson Scott Card

#19. Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.

Orson Scott Card

#20. That was an evil terror
an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.

George Eliot

#21. I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

Warren Ellis