Salman Rushdie Quotes

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThoughtPlaceCannotReligiousAllow

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

Johanna Lindsey

AngryLaughYouWillOwnGet

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

Joel Kinnaman

IntelligenceBrainFindingBodyWay

I like things that feel like they're timeless and really well made and tailored... things that make me feel confident when I leave the house.

John Legend

MeConfidentFeelHouseLeaveWell

I don't need to be liked.

John Malkovich

NeedLiked

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

Ang Lee

TimeGoWillWayTalkScene

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

Michael Eric Dyson

WorkTruthPowerResponsibilityHand

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

LeaderTechnologyScienceResearch

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

Rush Limbaugh

BusinessCustomerMediaWrongAlways

Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

Janine Shepherd

LifeMeOpportunitiesDreamCreating

Fortune favors the audacious.

Desiderius Erasmus

BrainyFavorsFortuneAudacious

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Drew Barrymore

LifeSuccessGoodPowerJobFriends

I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

Cory Monteith

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