Top 28 Satanic Verses Quotes
#1. I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
Layzie Bone
#2. We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.
Susan Rice
#3. I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book ... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.
Maurice Cowling
#4. 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
#5. 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
#6. Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
Salman Rushdie
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
Orson Scott Card
#10. If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.
Salman Rushdie
#11. Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. Rowling
#12. Let love flow out of you in big and small acts of kindness. Love is kindness with its work clothes on.
Annette Vaillancourt
#13. Advice is nice / On it I've thriven / Not mother's or other's / But what I've given!
Fali S. Nariman
#14. Life is similar to Boxing Game.
Defeat is not Declared when U Fall Down; It is Declared when U Refuse to Get Up.
Savan Solanki
#15. 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
#16. Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.
Salman Rushdie
#17. I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.
Grandmaster Flash
#19. The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.
Harlan Ellison
#20. Words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.
Joseph Pearce
#22. Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.
Walter Kaufmann
#23. To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.
Salman Rushdie
#24. I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.
Turcois Ominek
#25. I'm dying to do something sci-fi! I would love to be on a spaceship and firing a laser gun! Something like that would be really awesome. Or something with dinosaurs. Or preferably both at once.
Richard Madden
#26. I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
John Wells
#27. Yes, but - but maybe I'm just tall for my height," said Carrot desperately. "After all, if you can have short humans, can't you have tall dwarfs?
Terry Pratchett
#28. I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I
Ernest Cline
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