Top 100 Salman Quotes
#1. Don't act like a protagonist Raghu, be human," she said.
"Like Salman?" I asked and chuckled, she didn't react though.
Kavipriya Moorthy
#2. I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became clear they had never read a word by me.
Jeanette Winterson
#3. There are perks attached to it [Salman's name] that I can use ... and raise money, but I think Being Human will be a lot bigger than Salman,
Salman Khan
#4. I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him.
- Salman Khan
Salman Khan
#5. Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said.
Salman Rushdie
#6. I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
#7. Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
Salman Khan
#8. If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.
Salman Khan
#9. Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan ... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'
Kangana Ranaut
#10. There is a Bollywood actor, Salman Khan, and I'd like to act alongside him - whatever the film.
Jyoti Amge
#11. I think to take your shirt off, you need to have a great body and more than that, confidence and attitude. It's all related. A great body equals confidence, and confidence equals attitude. And when you put all three together, you get a Salman Khan! And that's not me.
Riteish Deshmukh
#12. I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
Madhur Mittal
#13. Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
Jo Nesbo
#14. I believe Salman Khurshid could not have embezzled Rs 71 lakh ... It is a very small amount for a central minister.
Beni Prasad Verma
#15. During my school and college days, the three Khans - Aamir, Salman and Shah Rukh - were superstars for me and will always be. Their movies were eagerly awaited every Friday.
Shahid Kapoor
#16. Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens
#17. 'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
Satya Bhabha
#18. My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.
Chelsea Handler
#19. Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
Salman Rushdie
#20. I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
Yuvraj Singh
#21. Salman Rushdie said, "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
So if someone tells me I've written something that's historically inaccurate, I can just tell them, "Salman Rushdie said I could."
Veronica Bale
#22. When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
Doris Lessing
#23. Salman Khan did not help me get movie offers. What rubbish! Will any producer take a risk of millions of rupees at the instance of any person? Everyone knows that the film industry is highly competitive, and one gets a job on one's talent only and not on any recommendation.
Katrina Kaif
#24. Salman Khan is the best co-star that I could have ever started off with. He's very supportive, very chilled out and very nice to work with, so working with him was a great start to my career.
Sonakshi Sinha
#25. I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.
Aamir Khan
#26. BEFORE CRITICIZING A WOMAN'S BODY, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NO LESS THAN SALMAN KHAN, HRITHIK ROSHAN OR BRAD PITT.
Upasana Banerjee
#27. Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
Cat Stevens
#28. My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.
Katrina Kaif
#29. The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
Salman Rushdie
#30. England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
Salman Rushdie
#31. No one can lead our lives for us. We are responsible for our actions. So people-especially the younger generation
need to be very careful especially where safe sex is concerned.
Salman Ahmad
#32. The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie
#33. To know one man's story you have to swallow the world.
Salman Rushdie
#34. To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him ... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.
Salman Rushdie
#35. Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom.
Salman Rushdie
#36. You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
Salman Rushdie
#37. All over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro-Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade-unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches,
Salman Rushdie
#38. The only person I have hurt is myself.
Salman Khan
#40. Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
Salman Khurshid
#41. This is known, and what is not known does not undermine it. This is the scientific way. To be open about the limits of one's knowledge increases public confidence in what one says is known.
Salman Rushdie
#42. I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
Salman Rushdie
#43. Ormus liked to compose his own songs up on the flat roof of the apartment block, and spent eternities up there, lost within himself, searching for the points at which his inner life intersected the life of the greater world outside, and calling those points of intersection songs.
Salman Rushdie
#44. I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
Salman Rushdie
#45. Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
Salman Rushdie
#46. Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Salman Rushdie
#47. I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
Salman Rushdie
#48. Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
Salman Rushdie
#49. If you live in the twentieth century you do not find it hard to see yourself in those, more desperate than yourself, who seek to shape it to their will.
Salman Rushdie
#50. Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.
Salman Rushdie
#51. Today's world needs a workforce of creative, curious, and self-directed lifelong learners who are capable of conceiving and implementing novel ideas. Unfortunately, this is the type of student that the Prussian model actively suppresses.
Salman Khan
#52. In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie
#53. India, the new myth
a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
Salman Rushdie
#54. Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie
#55. Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
Salman Rushdie
#56. These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.
Salman Rushdie
#57. I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
Salman Rushdie
#58. I've been worrying about God a little bit lately ... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting.
Salman Rushdie
#60. The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
Salman Rushdie
#61. The world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you don't ... You'll fight.
Salman Rushdie
#63. Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
Salman Rushdie
#64. The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
Salman Rushdie
#65. But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities
Salman Rushdie
#66. There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.
Salman Rushdie
#67. I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
Salman Rushdie
#68. I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
Salman Khan
#69. Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
Salman Rushdie
#70. If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.
Salman Rushdie
#72. He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.
Salman Rushdie
#73. People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
Salman Khan
#74. In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
Salman Rushdie
#75. Easily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there were always more.
Salman Rushdie
#76. For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
Salman Khan
#77. taking his lead from Beckett's mighty Unnamable. I can't go on. I'll go on.
Salman Rushdie
#79. This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
Salman Rushdie
#80. When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
Salman Rushdie
#81. You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
Salman Rushdie
#82. Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie
#83. It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
Salman Rushdie
#84. Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
#85. Fifteen years old! Okay, okay. In our part of the world that's not so young.
Salman Rushdie
#86. In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
Salman Rushdie
#87. To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion
Salman Rushdie
#88. Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.
Salman Rushdie
#89. My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
Salman Rushdie
#90. I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.
Salman Rushdie
#91. She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
Salman Rushdie
#92. They feared her [the dream beloved], knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistable, and that was why the king loved her best.
Salman Rushdie
#93. For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall.
Salman Rushdie
#94. I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
Salman Rushdie
#96. But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
Salman Rushdie
#97. When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
Salman Rushdie
#98. Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
Salman Rushdie
#99. The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
Salman Rushdie
#100. For, as the myths tell us, it is by defying the gods that human beings have best expressed their humanity.
Salman Rushdie
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