Top 24 Rushdie Satanic Verses Quotes
#1. Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.
Salman Rushdie
#2. If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.
Salman Rushdie
#3. Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.
Lesley Gore
#4. I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.
Jaye Davidson
#5. When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie
#6. They who have nothing to trouble them,
will be troubled at nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
#7. My friends will be like, 'That bloke was chatting you up', and I'll go, 'What?' I'm so oblivious - I don't notice things like that.
Eliza Doolittle
#8. 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
#10. What a leveller this remote-control gizmo was ... it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight ...
Salman Rushdie
#11. It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.
Platon
#12. Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
Salman Rushdie
#13. I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield
#14. The rate of photosynthesis is the same for all the trees. The trees, it seems, are equalizing differences between the strong and the weak.
Peter Wohlleben
#15. Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
Thomas Tusser
#16. He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began.
Kathleen Koen
#17. I've always been someone who's extremely relaxed in my everyday life. I'm not the girl who can wear awful seven-inch heels all night. I keep it simple - I consider myself to be a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl who just accessorizes a lot.
Nicole Richie
#18. In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
Salman Rushdie
#19. Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
Salman Rushdie
#20. To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.
Salman Rushdie
#21. It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.
James Gray
#22. Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
#23. We know we only have so much energy for reaching out; if we're going to invest, we want it to be good.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#24. My flower is ephemeral, thought little prince. And she only has four thorns for protection! And I've left her all alone! That
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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