Salman Rushdie Quotes

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThoughtRememberYouPowerfulFall

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

Andrew Zimmern

PeopleTalkingHideAfraidSomething

I'm not pretending when I'm in that court room.

Robert Rinder

PretendingRoomCourt

It's good to see more young people playing instruments.

Ry Cooder

GoodPeopleYoungMoreSeePlaying

I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

Monica Keena

StartDoneWantSoonPilatesYoga

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

Louise Slaughter

StrengthGrowthWorldSmallCreating

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

Claudio Hummes

ChurchNeverAlwaysOwnServeMust

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

Brian Chesky

MemoriesRepetitionCreateNew

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

Aung San Suu Kyi

LivePeopleEnvironmentWantBasic

I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.

Pia Zadora

LoveHomeMyselfFreeBetterAdvice

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Phil McGraw

YourselfSomeoneWishYouSometimes

A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push boundaries? You can look at a piece of art and not necessarily know what it means or what the artist intended by it. It's the effect it has on you.

Tuppence Middleton

ArtCreativePeoplePushYouLook

I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.

Tiffany Hwang

MusicThinkFeelUpFansGet

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