Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Me
  • Connection
  • Kid

• I built Kosovo for 10 years.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Years
  • Built
  • Kosovo

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Loudest

• Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Down

• There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • God
  • Long
  • Together

• The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Political

• Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Words

• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Road
  • Take

• A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Media
  • Motivated
  • Key

• When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Money
  • Home
  • Baseball

• I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • People
  • Future
  • Respect

• Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Comedy

• If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Character
  • Role
  • Sparkly

• I've repeatedly warned we must avoid the extremists: those who say we should pull out our troops in Vietnam immediately, those who say we should escalate and go right into North Vietnam... I tell you, we should continue doing what we have been: just messing around.

  

  Pat Paulsen

• Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • People
  • Life
  • Sad

• Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

  

  Jason Patric

• Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Power
  • Together

• I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Why
  • Desire
  • Jesus

• You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.

  

  Tom Kite
  • Remember
  • Wonderful
  • Champion

• I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin