"People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist."

-- Monica Ali

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Protagonists Quotes

“They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.”
“I just have a lot off different influences.”
“I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me.”
“A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!”
“Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.”
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”

Source : Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”
“Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.”

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