Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

  

  Beck
  • Song
  • Know
  • Puzzle

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Most
  • Concepts
  • Bitcoin

• What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Free
  • Car
  • Horse

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • American
  • Movie
  • Best

• At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Start

• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Thought

• I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Mind
  • Class
  • Then

• Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Thing
  • Vanity

• I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Blessed
  • Thank God

• I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Work
  • Think
  • Amazing

• We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Know

• The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Experience
  • Nurse
  • Hath

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Violence
  • Trauma

• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Violence
  • Acceptance