"I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Successful Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.”
“Itâ€™s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.”
“Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.”

Source : 1956 In the Ladies Home Journal, Nov.
“I'm sure I've dated my share of loonies in the past. Sometimes I realized it early on and sometimes not that fast. Love can be blinding, even for therapists. Plus, crazy can be fun sometimes. Don't you think?! Maybe that's just me!”
“All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.”
“I was born in Tehran at a time when women's rights were deteriorating at a rampant rate. My parents didn't want to raise their daughter in a social, political, and religious climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls, so they emigrated to London. But the struggle of the Iranian people was permanently etched in my social consciousness from a young age.”
“While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.”

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