Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.Ursula K. Le Guin
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
Dan Marino -
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
Caitlin Doughty -
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
Fergus Henderson -
I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
Edgar Meyer -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
Hal Sparks -
I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
Abby Wambach -
'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
Idina Menzel -
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
Octavia E. Butler -
Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
Zac Goldsmith -
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Candice Millard -
What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Randy Moss -
It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
Zooey Deschanel -
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
Abraham Verghese
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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
Karen Gillan -
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
Marilyn vos Savant -
He that to ancient wreaths can bring no moreFrom his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.
John Cleveland -
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.
Oliver Ellsworth -
I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
Ursula K. Le Guin