Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.Ursula K. Le Guin
Quotes to Explore
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence -
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin -
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
Oliver North -
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Ibrahim Rugova -
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
J. G. Ballard
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
Damien Chazelle -
I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
Zoe Foster Blake -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
Victor Cruz -
There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson -
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
Katee Sackhoff
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
Kate Winslet -
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess -
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian -
It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
Aaron Levie -
My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
Tammy Duckworth -
People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
Dan Gilbert
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
Kate DiCamillo -
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.
Marc Chagall -
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
J. Edgar Hoover -
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!
Charles Hazlewood -
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
Ursula K. Le Guin