Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!

Ursula K. Le Guin

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

Ursula K. Le Guin

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...

Ursula K. Le Guin

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

Tyrone Willingham

Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.

Tyne Daly

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

Tyler, The Creator

I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

Tyler Posey

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

Tyler Posey

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.

Tyson Chandler

I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

Tyrone Hayes

We've found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there's a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there's even more of a delay. No single compound will do this.

Tyrese Gibson

I think ultimately a fan is a fan and you can't put new things on the fans mind if you don't have an audience.

Tyrese Gibson

I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.

Tyrese Gibson

I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

Tyrese Gibson

I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.

Tyra Banks

I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

Tyra Banks

In terms of success and drive, I think some people are born with it, sometimes certain circumstances push you towards success... trying to prove people wrong. I'm not exactly sure where mine comes from, but, I have this thing inside of me that, when someone tells me that I can't do something, I become obsessed with proving them wrong. It's a weird thing.

Tyra Banks

When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

Robert Jay Lifton

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

Robert James Waller

So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

Robert James Waller

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

Rodney Crowell

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

Rodman Philbrick

I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.

Rodman Philbrick

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

Rodney Brooks

Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers there, the biggest problems in mainland China are recruiting and retention. There isn't an endless supply of cheap labor anymore in China. And it's now true that the labor rates in Mexico are lower than in China.

Rodney Brooks

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

Rodney Alexander

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair

Roddy McDowall

All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else.

Rodney Dangerfield

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

Rodney Dangerfield

I tell ya, southern people, they always think you are hard-of-hearing. Every timr you leave they say to you, You come back, you hear? And southern people, they think you are horny too. You get directions, they say, Just up the road apiece.