Salman Rushdie Quotes

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BelieveLiteratureYouBornTwoSee

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

Andrzej Wajda

TimeMoneyBudgetFindFilmmaking

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

Melinda Clarke

HumorPersonalityYouTryThings

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Robert Smith

PeopleFeelYouUnderstandBecause

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

Mercy Otis Warren

MenEveningArmyWashingtonDecember

I try to make things that are not elitist.

Amanda de Cadenet

TryThingsMakeElitist

In order to make any kind of living, you cannot afford to say no. If anything comes up, you've got to take it; you've got to grab it with both hands because security is really not there.

Tom Goodman-Hill

HandsYouSecuritySayKindLiving

I didn't make enough money in my sport to retire.

Roger Staubach

MoneyEnoughRetireMakeSport

Even though I only get a few days off, I do not stop, whether it's getting some stage time at an open mic or flying to L.A. to watch a ton of stand-up shows.

Dolph Ziggler

TimeFlyingStopOpenStageDays

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

Derek Walcott

PoetryThinkYouLookAliveMissing

I think you have to have a bit of an anger-management issue, to be honest with you. Usually, slot guys are a lot smaller and quicker, but at the same time, you have to go in there and block linebackers and safeties, and so you have to be aggressive.

Doug Baldwin

TimeThinkYouGoAggressiveSame

Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite.

Chuck Schumer

PeaceToughNiceWayTalkBring

I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.

Pico Iyer

DayWritingSurviveLongGoMovies

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