Salman Rushdie Quotes

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveTimeTrustPersonRelationships

Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for that. I don't like property taxes, either.

Robert J. Bentley

PeopleVoteNeverTaxesAlabama

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

Ang Lee

CharacterThinkFirstMonsterHulk

You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

PeopleMeCareHandsYouFind

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

Simon Helberg

HomeYouLookLaborSaidWant

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Robert E. Lee

DayPeopleFeelingsNeverRights

I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.

Michael Weatherly

WorkGreatPastPeopleTelevision

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

Michelle Dockery

SimpleEleganceNothingWayJust

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

Luke Bryan

MePerformanceAwardYouBigGet

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

KindnessPeopleLovingDeserveMore

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

Jon Voight

LivePeopleThinkSome PeopleSome

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Colin Quinn

GoodPeopleThinkFeelYouPerson

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

William H. Hunt

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