Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

She had come to Aka to learn how to sing this world's tune, to dance its dance; and at last, she thought, away from the city's endless noise, she was beginning to hear the music and to learn how to move to it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • World
  • Best
  • Jesus

• I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Mother
  • Door

• The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Iraq
  • Britain
  • Controlling

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Story
  • Inside

• How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • World
  • Me
  • Cute

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flower
  • Treatment
  • Sexist

• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • World

• The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

  

  John Linder
  • World
  • Long
  • American

• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• Robin and I had been good friends for nearly 30 years and that friendship survived our policy disagreements over Iraq, ... He was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. I deeply mourn his loss.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercising extremism - in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Justice

• She had come to Aka to learn how to sing this world's tune, to dance its dance; and at last, she thought, away from the city's endless noise, she was beginning to hear the music and to learn how to move to it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Music
  • She