"Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me."

-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Ideas Quotes #Want Quotes #Scream Quotes

“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.60, Random House
“Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.”
“I was an English major.”
“Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.”
“The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera,”
“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”
“Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.”

Source : Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”
“Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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