Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Like

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Start

• I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Clay
  • Henry

• 'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Never

• In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • She
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Mom
  • Feel
  • Meant To Be

• I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • History
  • Think
  • Deep

• I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Country
  • School
  • Parents

• An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Hair

• They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Why

• It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • World
  • Live

• What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Feeling
  • Health

• Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.

  

  Tyler Perry

• You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Great
  • Family
  • Abuse

• The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Stock

• Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

  

  Bodo Balsys
  • Suffering
  • Killing
  • Deliver

• It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

  

  Casey Robinson
  • Running
  • Courage
  • Liable

• Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Comfort
  • Assurance
  • Tranquil

• I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.

  

  Catie Curtis
  • Different
  • Certain
  • Albums

• I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Kind
  • Moments
  • Grandmother

• Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin