Salman Rushdie Quotes

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Thee

• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Men
  • Changes

• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Today
  • Society
  • Stop

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Smart
  • Data
  • Cloud

• People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • People
  • Same
  • Courtesy

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Loneliness

• Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Parents
  • Like

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Sky
  • Create
  • Walk

• When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.

  

  Big Bill Broonzy
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Lion

• I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Men
  • Play
  • Fate

• And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Believe
  • Matter

• I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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