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

• I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Thought

• 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

• Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Simple

• It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

  

  Adolph Ochs
  • Opinion
  • News
  • Impartially

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Deep
  • Feelings

• 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