Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mirror

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • People
  • Help
  • Me

• You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Best

• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hollywood
  • Gangster
  • Classy

• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Not Knowing

• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Feeling
  • Universe
  • Thought

• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Star

• I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Limits
  • Inventing

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Always
  • Years
  • Working

• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Song

• As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Trust
  • Doubt
  • Horse

• SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Help
  • Dream

• I always knew what I wanted to do with my life and career, but I was helped along the way by a few people. I didn't need telling, but when people like Franco (Zola), Wisey (Dennis Wise) and Marcel (Desailly) take the time out to say, 'You've got the world at your feet if you do things right', then you think there must be something to it.John Terry

  

  John Terry
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

  

  Carlo Scarpa
  • Feels
  • Looks
  • Persons

• For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.

  

  Luke Goss Bros
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Reading creates a sense of human fellowship. It is never (or rarely) a public activity, but in putting us in direct contact with other minds and sensibilities, it is a form of solitude which banishes loneliness. It can offer the consolation of knowing we are not alone, in our pleasures or in our suffering. It is in situations of deprivation that the value of reading – the deep need for books – becomes more vividly apparent.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Suffering
  • Books
  • Loneliness

• Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Suffering