Salman Rushdie Quotes

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyFriendshipSomeoneImportant

The 'Survivor' community is very tight. I mean very tight.

Jenna Morasca

CommunitySurvivorMeanTightVery

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Andrei Platonov

ThinkingWillWhat IfActLeftGet

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

Steve Kazee

PerformanceSomeoneYouCreateTry

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Alvin Ailey

LifeBusinessEffortLong

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Sufjan Stevens

ReligionParentsBornKindIslam

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

Steven Van Zandt

LiveSimpleDemocracyYouKind

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

Tommy Lee

LoveBackDrummerWriteSitDrums

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

Judy Collins

LoveMusicFeelingsImportantTouch

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion.

Domenico Dolce

WorkChangePeopleFashionSickSay

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

Bridget Moynahan

HomeBeautifulAmazingBabyYouGo

Like most authors, I also love to read.

Aprilynne Pike

LoveLikeReadMostAuthorsAlso

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

Anushka Sharma

MarriageI AmBelieveYouPerson

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