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Things Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.…
- One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
- It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird…
- One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
- The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the…
- A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
- Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
- I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than…
- I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words.…
- One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
- One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used…
- 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…
- I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood…
- I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one…
- In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the…
- One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
- One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my…
- The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I…
- The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on…
- The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the…
- Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't…
- We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in…
- I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle