In The Time Of The Butterflies Dede Courage Quotes & Sayings

Seen at Liberty University: I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due. — Kevin Roose

Typical is the murderer of thought, the defiler of ideas, the jailer of genius. Typical is the synapse you've already burned into that genius brain of yours, and typical leads right to the lizard brain. The lizard brain wants us all to be the same. A flock of geese. A herd of cattle. Middle management. The lizard brain tells us to avoid trouble. "Don't rock the boat," says the lizard brain. And we listen. — Ryan Hanley

It is when we fall that we are given the opportunity to rise up and reach new heights. — Christopher Earle

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising. — Ellsworth Kelly

Contemplating leaving everything I had ever known of one ill-advised hour of passionate lunacy. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

You've got to be dedicated and throw yourself into parts and auditions in a way that is completely selfless. — Sophie Kennedy Clark

Lady Peace is the first hostage taken when economic discomfort rises. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow. — Ming-Dao Deng

I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card. — Chris Pine

One of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way. — Robert A. Heinlein

Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there. — George Benson

Which suggested to me that a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal. — Ralph Ellison

Would you like a bag? she asks, as I pass her my AmEx. — E.L. James