Salman Rushdie Quotes

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodSayingVoiceStoryWorstHead

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

John Cameron Mitchell

PeopleInterestingStatus QuoAlways

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

Ani DiFranco

RealityYouReinventAnythingOrder

Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs.

Troy Carter

GrowthBusinessMusicTechnology

Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

Tom Brokaw

FightPoliticalFindDownReaction

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Rod Laver

OpportunityYouStrike

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

Rosamund Pike

YouWantProfileLowKeepPublic

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.

Mike Marsh

ExperienceWorldBuildingNeedTake

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

Michelle Dean

AgeRomanticBelieveRomanceFiction

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler

NatureHappinessRespectManWorld

My mother wasn't a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she'd tell me to go help someone, anyone. To this day, when I start feeling sorry for myself, I look for a good deed to do.

Donna Brazile

GoodMotherMyselfDayWomanStart

All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

Philip Kerr

HateRacismParentsNationalismBorn

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

Svetlana Alexievich

LifeNothingMoreHumanHuman Life

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