"The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things."

“I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.”

“Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

“A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and spending patterns - the accumulation of a day's purchases, or spending over a week or a year. A curious mind asks the questions that open up the consumer to talk about her latent dissatisfactions, hopes, wishes, and dreams.”

“We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”

“If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.”

“History is just new people making old mistakes.”

“Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.”

“No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.”

Source : "The Strokes: Elegantly Wasted". Interview with Neil Strauss, www.rollingstone.com. November 13, 2003.