Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 21, 1929

Topics

HappinessTimeJoyHappyYouMean

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez

MenTrainingWarLearnGoNatural

As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.

Meir Soloveichik

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I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

I AmMeBlessedFeelWhateverFar

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

Andy Serkis

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When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

Michael Haneke

MeSayFirstCulturesYearsUp

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

John Wanamaker

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Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.

Merrick Garland

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I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced.

Sue Hubbell

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I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

Tracey Ullman

LovePeopleRealReal PeopleLike

My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally.

Toni Collette

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There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Ruth Reichl

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I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

Mike Binder

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