Deidra Roper Quotes

#1. If we put a gun to her head she would sing all day. Try it first with a bird, General Benjamin said gently to Alfredo. Like our soprano, they have no capacity to understand authority. The bird doesn't know enough to be afraid and the person holding the gun will only end up looking like a lunatic.

Ann Patchett

#2. As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Nathan Parsons

#3. Was she mad, with her fancies of shared destiny and the other half of her soul?

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#4. What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even more exceptional.

Anonymous

#5. My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men

Bryce Courtenay

#6. A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.

H.G.Wells