Salman Rushdie Quotes

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

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• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • See

• I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Pieces
  • Only
  • Outdoors

• I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Reality
  • Intelligence

• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Living
  • Restaurant

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• I am someone who isn't always perfect.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Perfect

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal
  • Take
  • Middle East

• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Good
  • Me
  • Reputation

• First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • You
  • First
  • Intelligence

• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Mean
  • Used
  • Halloween

• Life is a series of delicious moments.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Moments
  • Series

• I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Me
  • Ready

• Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • She
  • Night
  • Broken

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common