"Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them"

-- Charles Gounod

#Butterfly Quotes #Hands Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Troubled is a polite word for what I am.”
“So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.”

Source : John Marsden (2001). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman would not have been so maimed, and neither would the world, (...)”
“It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.”
“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.”
“True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.”
“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”

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