Salman Rushdie Quotes

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm spiritual.

Jessica Simpson

Spiritual

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Jerry Hall

GirlLazyKindStay-At-HomeVery

I think all of society should be a think-tank where you throw ideas about. I had hoped the Internet would help. Actually, what it has done is make everybody go schtum. They're attacked for saying anything. So they say nothing.

Jeremy Irons

IdeasSocietySayingThinkHelpYou

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

John Crowley

CleverWhoNightmareSchedulingVery

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

Andie MacDowell

MePlanGoKnowSometimesOkay

I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.

Skylar Grey

WorkLeaderVisionYourselfPeople

I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don't you think? That would be fantastic: 'Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now - I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don't go in, they're anti-Semitic.'

Judy Gold

MotherWomanQueenThinkYouAlive

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.

Donald Johanson

WorkBackEarlyAfricaAncestors

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Donald Trump

GreatTimePeopleThinkCardsGet

My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

Deborah Joy Winans

WomenFaithJobCountryFirstOut

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

Chris Isaak

WorryYouNewNowActorRight

Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.

Chuck Fleischmann

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