Salman Rushdie Quotes

I'm definitely post-something.

Salman Rushdie

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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'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• A rematch is one of those things that will always be there when you remove a champion, and it's something you definitely need to give them - that chance for a rematch. That's the only way to do it.

  

  Holly Holm
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Champion

• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • People
  • World
  • Suffering

• I'm definitely post-something.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Definitely