Salman Rushdie Quotes

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGreatLiteratureFirstReason

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Jeffrey Tate

LifeLittleObserveRatherThanBit

Quitting Facebook would be like partially erasing myself. Quitting Twitter would constitute further erasure. Pretty soon, I'd be invisible. I was never on Instagram or Tumblr, which I guess means I never completely existed in the first place.

Meghan Daum

MyselfPlaceNeverFirstInvisible

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

John Jay Hooker

PowerConstitutionProcessAdvice

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.

Max Azria

PassionRespectCreativityFashion

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

Robert Greenblatt

DreamRunOldSystemStudioMovie

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

John Searles

LoveNew YorkNewBeingAbleWriter

If you have market power like Nike, you can set terms that are much tougher because athletes value the endorsement of Nike - it means as much to them as it does to the company.

John Quelch

PowerValueYouCompanyNikeMarket

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

Stephen Lewis

WantSeeLeaveI SeeBreakthrough

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Sidney Sheldon

DayPoliceWorldBetterEvery Day

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

Shimon Peres

ManParentsNegativeThoughtNothing

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

Toni Collette

FindStrangeMagazinesCovers

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

Tom Petty

BusinessMusicCareYouProfitKnow

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