Salman Rushdie Quotes

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Salman Rushdie

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• It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Education

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • World
  • Country
  • Grow

• Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Way
  • Imagination
  • Rome

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Military
  • Impact

• I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Get
  • Recognized

• I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Think

• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • True
  • Influence

• People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Thank God for product and blusher.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • God
  • Product
  • Thank God

• I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Political
  • Philosophical
  • Anti-Semitism

• Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.

  

  Andrei Sakharov

• A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Men
  • Long
  • Powerful

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Done
  • Age
  • Pretty

• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Attention
  • Ironic

• There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.

  

  Rachael Price
  • Independent
  • New York
  • Numbers

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie