Admirer Quote by Salman Rushdie

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known…

— Salman Rushdie

The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries.…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any…

— Aga Khan III

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

— Park Geun-hye

There are a lot of things about my father, various things, that people connect with. He was that diverse of a person, and he…

— John Carter Cash

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

— Spike Milligan

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he…

— Claude Picasso

My father was a fun-loving person, not the evil, sadistic, macho, woman-hating guy that comes through in some of the biographies.

— Jack Hemingway

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

— Spike Milligan

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

— Jaya Bachchan

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was…

— James Tobin