The Satanic Verses Quotes

#1. Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Salman Rushdie

#2. 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.

Salman Rushdie

#7. There seems no plan because it is all plan.

C.S. Lewis

#8. To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#9. 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

#10. Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

Salman Rushdie

#11. You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Krishna Das

#12. New information technologies are tools - and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.

Moises Naim

#13. To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Kanye West

#14. Explore those things you do that are satisfying

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".

Paul A. Baran

#16. Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#17. 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

#18. To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.

Salman Rushdie

#19. There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

Edward Teller

#20. A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.

Walter Benjamin

#21. 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

#22. I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

Layzie Bone

#23. Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Mignon McLaughlin

#24. Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money.

Will Keith Kellogg

#25. 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

#26. When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.
When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.

A. Saleh

#27. Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Kenny Loggins