Salman Rushdie Quotes

I'm definitely post-something.

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• The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Value
  • Books
  • Uncomfortable

• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Genius
  • Just
  • Wait

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Real
  • Cool
  • Opposite

• I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

  

  Questlove
  • Children
  • Drawing
  • Roots

• I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Loved

• I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, 'Oh, Lord'. I'd carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore, so it was time to have a reduction.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Time
  • Real
  • Tired

• Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Industry
  • Tourism

• A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Often

• When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Theatre
  • Films
  • Comedies

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits

• There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Bad

• When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.

  

  Asa Butterfield

• I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

  

  Elle King
  • Up
  • Dirty

• Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Failure

• I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Challenge
  • Motivated
  • Obstacles

• I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

  

  Bernard Hinault
  • May

• I can't really sit around and talk with people who believe that the Bible is the way it happened, because that's man-made. I'm a writer, too; that's how I look at the Bible. Like, 'I could've written a better version than that,' you know? At least a more interesting one, and then maybe more people would go to church. I could definitely do a revamp.

  

  John Prine
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Church

• I definitely don't have any desire to have children.

  

  Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • Children
  • Definitely

• When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

  

  Harry Hay
  • Childhood
  • Trials
  • Adolescence

• You have to remember where you came from, and I definitely have enough brothers and sisters to kick me in the butt whenever I get out of line!

  

  Julianne Hough
  • Remember
  • Butt
  • Came From

• I'm definitely post-something.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Definitely