Salman Rushdie Quotes

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LearningMeLearnYouSayWant

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

Jessica Hagedorn

LiveDanceJoyPeopleThinkEnd

I have a great agency! It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.

Suki Waterhouse

WorkGreatTrustBestYourselfTeam

This song 'All Aboard,' that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it's not bachata - I'm singing English, and that was really fun.

Romeo Santos

FunMeSingingSongKindAudience

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Michael Palin

MeWorldRestStandEnoughPlace

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Donna Reed

FamilyPowerHealthMoneyPlants

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plautus

GoodCourageEvilBadOvercomeHalf

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

Susie Bright

WomenDownStatus QuoMoreStatus

Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that, before you've paid off your house, we'll learn that the universe is not the center of the universe, either!

Seth Shostak

UniverseLearnHumanityYouHouse

I would love to make Madhuri Dixit dance. If I do a film with her, it definitely has to be a 'Madhuri Dixit film'. I don't want to cast her in a small role. I will do a full- fledged dance film with her.

Remo D'Souza

LoveDanceSmallWantWillRole

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

Maria Sharapova

MyselfThinkBeing MyselfPlayWant

There's a lot of opportunity for game developers to show value to people, things they want to spend money on. I think offers are just another kind of ads.

Mark Pincus

OpportunityMoneyValuePeopleGame

There are really only two things I'm terrified of: water and cockroaches.

Leslie Hope

WaterTwoThingsOnlyCockroaches

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