Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!Ursula K. Le Guin
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson -
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Happiness is an inside job.
Edd Byrnes -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
J. D. Salinger -
It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
Dan O'Brien
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
Patrick Chan -
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia -
People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
Victoria Pendleton -
The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
Said Nursi -
There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
Dan Jenkins
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Olin Miller -
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
Sally Kirkland -
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk -
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
S. I. Hayakawa -
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
Finn Wittrock
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I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
Yelawolf -
Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying.
Marti Noxon -
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
James L. Buckley -
I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
Lalla Ward -
Get through today – you can fall apart tomorrow. Get through tomorrow, you can fall apart the day after . . .
Tabitha Suzuma -
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
Ursula K. Le Guin