Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
Kate McKinnon
In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
Halsey
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
Saint Basil
In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
Halle Berry
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
T. E. Lawrence
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
Harriet Harman
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White
What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
Karl Lagerfeld
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Luc de Clapiers
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called "self-interestedness". This was not a portrait of man "warts and all". It was all wart - except that the dominating attribute was not considered a blemish.
George Will
Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.
Jonathan Dimbleby
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
Barry Diller
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,-Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Edgar Allan Poe
'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'
Ursula K. Le Guin
