Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
-
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
-
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
-
I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
-
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
-
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
-
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
-
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
-
Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
-
I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
-
Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
-
The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
-
First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
-
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
-
I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
-
So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
-
My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.
-
I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.
-
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
-
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!
-
It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
-
She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.
