Salman Rushdie Quotes
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Quotes to Explore
-
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
-
Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
-
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-
It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
-
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
-
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
-
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
-
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
-
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
-
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
-
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
-
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
-
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
-
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
-
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
-
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
-
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
-
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
-
The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
-
All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.
-
Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.
-
Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
-
The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.
-
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
