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

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• 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

• Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Work
  • Art
  • Science

• It is imperative that Congress provides adequately funded and stable budgets which allow us to support Afghan personnel and ensure that Afghanistan does not become a breeding ground for terrorists again.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Support

• Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

  

  Arthur Frederick Saunders
  • Words
  • Blessings
  • Speaker

• I've never been one to try to find a niche for myself. I've always tried to wait and see what comes.

  

  Marcia Fudge

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

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin