Salman Rushdie Quotes

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyDarknessConflictDoorsHigh

Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.

Jesse Andrews

YouWillMoreHiddenAlwaysComplex

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Jessica Biel

MyselfDayMindWeekYouSunday

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.

Joel Edgerton

WorkDiversityCameraKnowAnonymity

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Michael Bloomberg

CommunitySocietyFeelYouLook

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Stephen Ambrose

AmericanWayInferiorEveryAfrican

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

Simon Callow

KingKnowNeedDementiaAboutWrote

I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.

Luis Alberto Urrea

PeopleStand UpStandYouSeeUp

We won't do something different for different's sake. Designers cave in to marketing, to the corporate agenda, which is sort of, 'Oh, it looks like the last one; can't we make it look different?' Well no, there's no reason to.

Jonathan Ive

LookMarketingLooksCaveReason

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow

SuccessFireYourselfResultYou

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

TimeYouComplainSomethingWhine

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

FashionPersonRight

If Jurgen Klinsmann thinks that the best way for his team to be successful is if his young players go to Europe, there is nobody in the world who can argue with that. That is his opinion, whether you agree with it or not.

Tim Howard

BestTeamOpinionWorldYouYoung

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