Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceThinkGoHollywoodFiction

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

Jim Leach

HumanitiesInterestLong-Term

Work isn't really work for me.

John Kluge

WorkMeReally

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

John Hench

ArtPeopleArtistInformationMore

I meant what I said about how electing Donald Trump will set our country back. I stand by that. However, I do wish that I wouldn't have made the blanket statement about not respecting anybody who voted for Trump.

Stan Van Gundy

StandWishBackCountryDonald Trump

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Tracy McGrady

NightToughKidsEveryEvery Night

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

Tom Hiddleston

EducationPeopleBridgeEasyKnow

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

Roland Joffe

MenMeYouConversationWhiteWhy

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

Michael Leunig

DeafRightEarYeahTotally

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

Deepak Chopra

AdventureStoryBetrayalMoreHuman

I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be... That being said, there's more work to be done... I still want to change the world, absolutely.

Boy George

WorkChangeChange The WorldPeople

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Archibald MacLeish

GodChoiceGuiltyInnocentNo Choice

Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.

Antonio Brown

WaterPeaceBlueMeColorJust

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