Carpet Quote by Salman Rushdie

“There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.”

— Harriet Lerner

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

— Robertson Davies

Who do you know, who could come out on a flying carpet? P. Diddy standing at the bottom, come out like a concert, dancing,…

— Naseem Hamed

“There was still plenty of time to spare when Çetin Efendi dropped my parents and me at the revolving doors, which were shaded by…

— Orhan Pamuk

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as…

— Alberto Manguel

Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way to rise…

— Julian Barnes

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

“Mary McCarthy, though, had it wrong when she wrote that “Madame Bovary is Don Quixote in skirts.” Emma’s suffering is Platonic: she searches, in…

— Mark Lilla

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel.…

— Brigitte Macron

“Dad once noted (somewhat morbidly, I thought at the time) that American institutions would be infinitely more successful in facilitating the pursuit of knowledge…

— Marisha Pessl