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Salman Rushdie Quotes

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: June 19, 1947

Topics

Reading Loving Jungle Up Books Them

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Home Relationship Parents Think Know

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

Work Hard Work Day Job Boss Slavery

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Stephen Hawking

Stars Sun Think Universe Find New

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

Mistakes People Make Too Moms

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

Detail Reading Process Drawing Look

Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.

Homework Up Ten Carrying Least Were

I always want more. I always want my team to perform to their best.

Best Team Want More Always Perform

I've bought companies in response to the seismic shifts - the consumer preference for food and health and well-being and a gravitation toward more fresh and natural and organic.

Denise Morrison

Health Food Well-Being More Fresh

Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.

Better Poor Decision-Making Could

How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration.

Happiness Improvement Men Interesting

I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.

Happy Be Happy Famous Fragrance Wore

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

Time School High School Literature

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