Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PainPeopleStartThoughtYearsOut

I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

Jerry West

TimeDayVoiceThinkEndYou

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Robert Lacey

LifeSundayBoyLondonUniversity

Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

Jeffrey Kluger

TimeMoneyBalancePainKeyReward

I'm a spa person. Massages keep me relaxed, so I always try to make time for them when I tour.

Stefon Harris

TimeMePersonTryAlwaysRelaxed

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

Tom Stoppard

FalseInterviewsPretenses

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Dennis Prager

EqualitySocialismValuesLiberty

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Dorothy Fields

HelpCryWantGrandmotherRightOur

I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people of the United States, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

Bob Dole

HomePeopleFallBackHouseWhite

You know what I love the smell of? Christmas trees and pine. I always have a pine candle even if it's not Christmas.

Brooklyn Decker

LoveCandleTreesYouKnowSmell

Christmases past, my sister Carolyn and I - we'd been waiting for Santa all night. Nothing! Where is this man?

Aretha Franklin

PastManWaitingSisterNightSanta

I take musical theater seriously.

Alice Ripley

SeriouslyTakeMusical Theater

If you are confident about yourself and wear what you love, you will exude a style of your own.

Sushant Singh Rajput

LoveStyleYourselfConfidentYou

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