Octavia Butler Fledgling Quotes

#1. You treat an idiot like an idiot.

Bikram Choudhury

#2. I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

Octavia E. Butler

#3. Lady?" he echoed, with a nasty laugh. "Just because she looks like a fat Pippa Middleton and talks like she's got a cock shoved in her mouth doesn't make her a lady.

Erin Lawless

#4. We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

James Whistler

#5. The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.

Talal Asad

#6. Trying to solve complex social problems using the state, is like trying to create a beautiful painting with a machine gun: all you get is holes in the canvas, recoil aches, and a smell of cordite in the air.

Stefan Molyneux

#7. If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.

Terry Carr

#8. The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make an agreement between a camera and a man and say, "I'm going to film you now."

Tobias Lindholm

#9. The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

Daniel Yergin

#10. Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Stephen Sondheim

#11. I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

Rachel Kushner

#12. Life is not just for living; life is a gift. Live just for the joy of giving.

Debasish Mridha