Salman Rushdie Famous Quotes
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return."
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie Quotations
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania."
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
Woody Allen
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
Robert Charles Benchley
"The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.N.B. From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait."
Lamentations 325
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Free advice is worth the price.
Robert Half
"Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate."
John Fletcher
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
Fletcher
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."
Sophia Loren
Why be a man when you can be a success
Bertolt Brecht