Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
-
Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
-
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
-
By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
-
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
-
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
-
And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
-
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
-
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
-
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
-
It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
-
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
-
To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
-
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
-
If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
-
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
-
I love Channing Tatum!
-
Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
-
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
-
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
-
I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
-
Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
