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Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Think Say Others See Beware Worse

I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.

Robert Osborne

Time People Me Free Hands Perfect

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

Subcomandante Marcos

Politics Chance Doing Now Why Way

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.

Robert Caro

Book Feel You Sometimes Say More

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Rod Stewart

Music Me Proud More Railway Means

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

Michael Ritchie

Los Angeles Going Granddaddy Los

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Moliere

You Bear Praise Your Pocket Sort

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.

Don McCullin

Portrait You Black-And-White Talk

I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.

Daya

Home Road Place Now Right Nomad

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

Brendan Dooling

Love Easy Fall Quirky Number Many

Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Society Burden Understand Cash Huge

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

Pier Luigi Bersani

Government World Credibility Return

Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it.

Peter V. Brett

Myself Me Crazy Uncle Grandfather