Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CityAmbitionInsecurityDriveBlack

You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.

Jimmy Butler

GoodDayWinWinningGameSelfish

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

Joe Biden

AfghanistanDollarNuclear Weapons

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

Joel Edgerton

DogThinkYouBackSometimesWant

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

John Green

TruthWisePeopleWritingTruth Is

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Max Lerner

RichCivilizationPossessionsSpin

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

Robert Green Ingersoll

MemoriesWorldSpeakPoorDeadOnly

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

John Ruskin

LifeBeautifulGreatArchitecture

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you're interested in.

Russell Simmons

YourselfSurround YourselfPeopleYou

In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish person in the Soviet Union was not easy. Not that I remember any of that - I was barely old enough to chew back then - but for my parents, both Uzbekistan-born Jews, life was a struggle.

Milana Vayntrub

LifeCultureStruggleParentsEnough

I miss L.A. because of the weather. It can change so much in Calgary. You can get a storm one minute, and then the sun will come out and it will be hot.

Dominique McElligott

ChangeStormSunWeatherYouWill

To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you're not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you're working.

Diane Ladd

WorkLoveCommitmentExperienceYou

We've got to take care of the poor.

Bob Riley

CareTake CarePoorTakeGot

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