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Salman Rushdie Quotes

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Looking Look Trouble Go Part

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Curiosity Spirit Direct

My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.

Family Egypt Jewish Out Being Most

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

Michael Ignatieff

Book Toxic Only Tissue Felt Ever

I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.

Love Good Name Will Company Either

My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.

Work Science Children Relationships

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Stephen Leacock

Trust Men Dishonesty Knowing Degree

I want to do a lot of different characters - definitely not always the same kind of character. I love that life provides so many choices, and I want to be able to experience that.

Stephanie Sigman

Life Love Character Experience Kind

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials.

Justice I Am Believe Run Trials

I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.

Mother Me Guitar Lesson First Kid

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.

Back Must Turned Forms

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

Christopher Voss

Passion Motivation You Emotion Your

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

Clarence Thomas

Work Man Said Grandfather Never

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