Wizard Of Earthsea Quotes

#1. She always brought something when she came on Fridays, and this time it had been a book. A Wizard of Earthsea, written by someone called Ursula K. Le Guin, and already after the first few pages I knew that this was an absolutely fantastic book.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#2. My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

#3. I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

John Edensor Littlewood

#4. Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

Robert Payne

#6. It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

Peter Hedges

#7. So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#8. Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Michael Ignatieff

#9. Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

Paulo Coelho

#10. The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#11. The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing!

Mehmet Murat Ildan