Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Salman Rushdie Quotes

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moment Me Violence You Lose Find

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

Jenny Zhang

New York People New Books Times

At the National Institute for Medical Research, I came into contact with biological scientists and formed collaborative projects with several of them. In particular, George Popjak and I shared an interest in cholesterol.

John Cornforth

Medical Research Contact Interest

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

Anatoly Chubais

Money You Go Nothing Way See

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott

Love New York Writing New Kind Two

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

John Lewis Gaddis

Power Balance Think Impact Way

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

John Lydon

Lie Me Values Never Tell Sensible

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowledge Death Die Know Nothing Us

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

Robert Gottlieb

Yourself Book You Sometimes Kind

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Anita Brookner

Hope Free Energy Feel Moments You

There's usually room in the theme parks business for efficiencies on the cost side and new investment, which drives traffic.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Business New Investment Traffic Room

It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.

Trevor Paglen

Knowledge Common Most Many Guys

You've got to have one of those guys on your ball club that, when you have runners on scoring position, you know that guy is going to drive the ball and put the ball in play and pick them up.

Rod Carew

Drive You Play Know Club Up