Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Jump
  • Skin
  • Wood

• Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Magic
  • Blood
  • Democratic

• If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

  

  Tad Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Real

• I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Audiences
  • Asian

• The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Government

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Cold
  • Year
  • Canada

• It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Friends
  • True
  • Past

• I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • People
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• Heroes can be sweet.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Sweet
  • Heroes

• I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Necessary

• I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Intelligence
  • Evolution

• Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Things
  • Digital
  • Invest

• Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • World
  • Real
  • Movie

• When people say that I may not speak, they forget that I may well think. I may think what I want, like everyone else. I shall just refrain from saying everything I think. That might be something many people should do once in a while.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • May

• The final verdict will not be in the obituaries. The final verdict will be when the PhD students dig out the archives, read my old papers, assess what my enemies have said, sift the evidence and seek the truth. I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Truth
  • Purpose

• Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Light
  • Poverty

• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • World
  • Country
  • Science

• His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Mind
  • Power

• I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Myself
  • Famous

• Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin