Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.Ursula K. Le Guin
Quotes to Explore
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston -
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
Jack Schwartz -
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert -
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
Barbara Boxer -
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
Wayne Dyer
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee -
Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
Taylor Swift -
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
Ja Rule -
Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
Adam Hamilton -
I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
Kabir Bedi -
I love pain. Love pain.
Cam Gigandet
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
Fernando Pessoa -
Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
Fernando Pessoa -
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
Edward Sapir -
We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
Benito Mussolini -
I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.
Aneurin Barnard -
Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.
James Bobin
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I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.
Sandra Cisneros -
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Larry Wall -
Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
Matthew Desmond -
We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.
Nicolas Guillen -
To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
Steve Martin -
I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
Ursula K. Le Guin