Salman Rushdie Quotes
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.Salman Rushdie
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I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
Ed Asner -
When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron -
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson -
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Adam DeVine -
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke -
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
R. L. Stine -
I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
Mahershala Ali -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken -
It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
Imran Amed -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
Daniel Bryan -
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
Jackie Evancho -
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Patricia Ireland -
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot -
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
Gary Jennings
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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
Francis Chan -
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Linda Chavez -
It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.
Alice Oswald -
You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.
Donald Glover -
The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.
Oswald Chambers -
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
Salman Rushdie