Salman Rushdie Quotes

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Tomorrow

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Source

• When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Family
  • City
  • London

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Great
  • You
  • Acting

• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Moon

• Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Time
  • Age
  • Now

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them.

  

  Barry Davies
  • Support
  • Acknowledge
  • Crowd

• We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

  

  Alan Lightman
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Say

• Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

  

  Pierre Curie
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

  

  Ann Turner
  • World
  • History
  • Today

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible