Octavia E. Butler Quotes

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

Topics

WorryLateAdaptGlobal WarmingOut

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Jeremy Taylor

ManRevengeViolenceStoneHillHim

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Stephen Fry

TimeYouActFilmFiveSeven

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

Travis Kalanick

I AmMisunderstandingRollWhoSome

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.

Lois Frankel

LeadershipFutureExperiencePeople

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Jawaharlal Nehru

AgeHistoryMomentSoulStepLong

I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.

Jon Scieszka

DreamLegoKidFictionStarSure

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

Chuck Jones

MeEarlyAnimalsExperiencesQuite

We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

Bonnie Hammer

OwnGenre

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

ToughnessMentalMental Toughness

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Bob Dylan

ExperiencePastLearnYouWayAny

If I put the sound of the ocean on, that's going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.

Brian Reitzell

OceanMeYouKnowSoundGoing

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Philip Warren Anderson

My OwnMoreActiveOwnQuantumMuch

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