Dawn Octavia Butler Quotes

#1. How could an alphabet - letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves - be important?
But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's newspaper.
It was all about words.
If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.

Linda Sue Park

#2. If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Gregory Maguire

#3. It comes from looking at the heart of things, from stopping to smell not only the roses but the bushes as well. It is a quality of attention to ordinary life that is so loving and intimate it is almost worship.

Martha N. Beck

#4. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. The only way to free yourself from the collective programming that we experience as children and that indeed continues every day beyond that into adulthood is to ask for guidance about what is right for you.

Catherine Carrigan

#6. I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

Estelle Morris

#7. Now make your idea grow. Think about it. Tie the idea to related ideas. Read anything you can find that is in any way akin to your idea. Investigate all angles. Then, when the time is ripe, put it to work for yourself, your job, your future.

David J. Schwartz

#8. What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

Edward Dahlberg