Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Future
  • Funny

• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Now

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Change
  • Years
  • Wishes

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • God
  • Today
  • Ignorance

• While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Air
  • China

• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Like
  • Star
  • Feel

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

  

  Feist
  • Myself
  • First
  • Living

• I did charity events with the Cup all the time.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Charity
  • Cup

• Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Great
  • May
  • Parents

• I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Book
  • True

• Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Reader
  • Terms

• I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...

  

  E. B. White
  • Devil
  • Mood

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • She
  • Job
  • Look

• Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Movie

• The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Life
  • Song
  • Army

• This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Artist