Octavia E. Butler Quotes

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

Octavia E. Butler

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• Say Nothing

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
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  • Always

• I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Happens
  • Starbucks
  • Mostly

• The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Country
  • Understanding

• One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • World
  • Great
  • Stand

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Nervous
  • Go
  • Beyond

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Age
  • You

• People who are over-educated become risk-averse.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Risk
  • Become

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • End

• I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Always
  • Never

• My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • College
  • Identity

• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Real
  • Free

• Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Pretty
  • Win
  • Ugly

• We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Eyes

• Настоящее произведение искусства делает то, что в сознании воспринимающего уничтожается разделение между ним и художником...

  

  Leo Tolstoy

• If I need to be, like, a guy that scores a lot, I'm willing to do that.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Guy

• Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Energy
  • Peace
  • Lost

• I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Age
  • Consciousness
  • Rage

• But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Reason
  • Humanity
  • Lust

• Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Band
  • Player
  • Fans

• I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Past
  • Giving
  • Belief

• When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Rage
  • Choking
  • Say Nothing