Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““Grain grows best in shit...”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.” — Horace Copy Share Image
“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's corn bread-stale and dry.” — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we love them, we all grow up surrounded by our parents’ shit. You’ll either be buried in it and suffocate,… — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
“Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to… — Saint-Exupery Antoine Copy Share Image
“Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain?” — Laura Thalassa Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
