Salman Rushdie Quotes

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeCultureProgressIdeasTurn

My father taught me you have to believe in yourself and run on your own track.

Jennifer Grey

FatherBelieve In YourselfYourself

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

HumorUniverseDefenseAgainstJust

People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'

Max Schneider

LoveTogetherPeopleMeEnergyWhy

I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.

John Key

DayThinkPressureYouEvery Day

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

John Lawson

WorldAmericaDifficultCornBeen

During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.

Robert Reich

AmericanEnoughThreeNationWorkers

I don't believe in defeat.

Michael Cimino

BelieveDefeat

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

Tom Waits

BuildingSomeoneYouPlaceKnow

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

PowerReligionLawPoliticalWill

I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week without paying, and they would pay me a nominal amount of money to be there.

Mike Birbiglia

MoneyCollegeMeDoorComedyWeek

The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.

Mike Marsh

PastPlantsProblemUnderstandFifty

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Dennis Moore

TechnologyLearnNewNeedEconomy

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