Ursula K LeGuin Famous Quotes
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
"I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next."
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
"If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern."
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
"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."
"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy
Ursula K LeGuin Quotations
A good intention clothes itself with power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
William Carlos Williams
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers
Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before. And he's done it more times than anyone else.
Jerry Coleman
"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code."
Dan Salomon
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
William Orville Douglas
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
John Lennon
"She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table."
Henry James
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
Ralph Novak