"Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time."

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Source : Lisa Gardner (2004). “The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel”, p.195, Bantam

Lisa Gardner

#Should Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.”
“I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.”
“The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time.”

Source : Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo”, p.16, Native American Book Publishers, LLC
“To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.”
“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”

Source : Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.113, Penguin Books India
“When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.”
“I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.”
“Thoughts are very real, even if we can't see them. They create real & powerful feelings & experiences.”

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