English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Salman Rushdie Quotes

Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.

Salman Rushdie

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. Lynn Johnston
Leonard Cohen quote: "In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in..."
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. Leonard Cohen
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. Ernest Gaines
Jo Brand quote: "I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work."
I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work. Jo Brand
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! Soren Kierkegaard
As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it. Shinichi Suzuki
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. William Shakespeare
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing. Soren Kierkegaard
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat.-Lord Vetinari Terry Prachett
Aaron Eckhart quote: "I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals..."
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction. Aaron Eckhart
There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner, whose novels and essays provide us a comprehensive portrait of industrial society in all its glittering corruption and radiant evil. Edward Abbey
Adam Smith quote: "With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of..."
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. Adam Smith
If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas. Judy Biggert
Dennis Rodman quote: "Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't..."
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid. Dennis Rodman
NINA Think of me sometimes. TRIGORIN I shall never forget you. I shall always remember you as I saw you that bright day--do you recall it?--a week ago, when you wore your light dress, and we talked together, and the white seagull lay on the bench beside us. Anton Chekhov