Octavia E. Butler Quotes

All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.

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• I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

  

  J. Cole
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Follow

• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Party

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • You
  • Win
  • Award

• Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Sex

• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reading

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Look
  • Director

• I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Doing
  • Count

• I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Believe
  • Quality
  • Challenge

• As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Police
  • Beach

• If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Love
  • Challenges
  • Being

• I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Find

• I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Better

• It is better to do too much than to do too little.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Better
  • Too Much
  • Much

• I love being able to change from big films to small films.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Change
  • Being
  • Films

• It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Life
  • Remember
  • College

• It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Life
  • Crazy

• Some things just have a short, beautiful life, and some things have a longer one. One hopes that the things that go a long time are things that you love. It's like a relationship. The longer things go, you have to really work on that relationship with your character, with your castmates, the crew your working for, the producers, and the writers.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Life
  • Love
  • Character

• There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Blind

• All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.

  

  Octavia E. Butler