Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AlonePastHurtGrowHelpYou

I eat fast food all the time.

Jessica White

TimeFoodFastFast FoodEat

Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.

John Cameron Mitchell

DanceWorldFeetAngelsRealGhosts

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.

Joel Fuhrman

FocusPeopleYouHungerStomach

High culture isn't what it used to be.

Andrew O'Hagan

CultureHighUsed

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

John Corigliano

GreatWinThinkAwardYouBecome

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

Andrew Cuomo

IdeasWindYouSometimesNothingUp

It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

Max Martin

TimeMeSongFeelRememberYou

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

Steven Spielberg

CareerNowReviewsOlderReadThem

I want to help develop a visual and cultural vocabulary around surveillance.

Trevor Paglen

HelpWantVocabularySurveillance

Pilots learn to use human skills to communicate information and make decisions collectively, which creates a shared sense of responsibility among the team for better outcomes.

Chesley Sullenberger

ResponsibilityTeamBetterLearn

The cool thing is, I was a little nervous about how they were going to handle Black Panther in his own movie, but then when I saw 'Civil War' and just the perfect way they handled him in that movie, it made me even more excited about a Black Panther film.

Brian Stelfreeze

WarMeCoolBlackPerfectNervous

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

Allison Schroeder

NASAGrandfatherGrandmotherSoftware

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