Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Brain

• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Actor
  • Still
  • Appearances

• What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Man

• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Know
  • Secret
  • Keep

• There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Might

• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Me
  • Lost

• I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Dresses

• I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Words
  • My Life

• My father is my inspiration.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Inspiration

• I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Long
  • Live

• A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

  

  Eleanor Parker
  • Personality

• So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

  

  Gemma Arterton
  • Why
  • Feminist

• When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rest

• Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin