Salman Rushdie Quotes

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePeopleMy LifeTryingLook

I just think we're on this rock orbiting a sun that's going to go out, and I don't know that human society is necessarily a wonderful thing for the planet. I think people can be kind to one another and share things, but I don't know that this particular iteration of civilization is to be preferred to any other.

Jesse Ball

Be KindSunPeopleSocietyThinkGo

I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute.

John Mulaney

PlansLivingMinuteMakeAnymore

I feel, as I get older and now a father, I try to be a little more conscious of the things I would say and do. I try to be more creative as opposed to using a cheap word, cursing, or something vulgar to get a reaction.

Matt Hardy

FatherCreativeFeelNowSayTry

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

Andy Lau

ExampleChineseSimilarFor Example

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Michael Arlen

RealitySameExistenceSeeDifferent

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Sigmar Gabriel

LifeLiveBusinessTodayPolitics

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Robin Leach

TravelPersonSubjectiveVeryLoves

The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it.

Rush Limbaugh

NegativeImpactCheatingYouParty

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Mike Nichols

GodMeDieNever ForgetKnowForget

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Julia Child

FoodThinkUnderstandWayPossible

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

Lisa Loeb

LoveMindEatingFishChickenMeat

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

Jonathan Ive

PeopleStartThoughtProcessNow

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