#rang

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. ↗

— Gary Numan

#arranged #coming #concerts #crush #dad

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#answered prayers #become #big #boomerang #broad

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times. ↗

— Gary Numan

#business #distinctive #glad #good #got

Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week. ↗

— Gary Numan

#another #areas #around #built #called

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#arranged #biology #birmingham #degree #extensive

We live in a strange bubble. ↗

— Brian Molko

#live #strange

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#cultures #feel #get #i #i feel

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. ↗

— Ben Okri

#book #bring #creative #creative act #like

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. ↗

— Ben Okri

#africa #come #future #how #jazz