Salman Fish Quotes & Sayings

And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food seeping into her - because Reverend Mother doled out the curries and meatballs of intransigence, dishes imbued with the personality of their creator; Amina ate the fish salans of stubbornness and the birianis of determination. And, although Mary's pickles had a partially counteractive effect - since she had stirred into them the guilt of her heart, and the fear of discovery, so that, good as they tasted, they had the power of making those who ate them subject to nameless uncertainties and dreams of accusing fingers - the diet provided by Reverend Mother filled Amina with a kind of rage, and even produced slight signs of improvements in her defeated husband. — Salman Rushdie

The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night! — Salman Rushdie

You waved at Soren while I fought to look neutral because I was taken with you and slightly enraged for no reason. Enraged is the wrong word,but I felt like I wanted to kick you in the shins and then make you banana bread. I wanted to key your car and take you out for dim sum. It was admiration,passion and that voice of yours all mushing together and disarming me,making me want to smash something and kiss someone. — Mary-Louise Parker

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it. — Alexander Wang

Can one drown in one's element ... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air? — Salman Rushdie

Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off. — Ryuhei Kitamura

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A small profit it better than a big loss — Ron Rash

Life is easy. Live it while you're alive.

Because when you're gone you won't have an opportunity. — Scott Hildreth

My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally. — Lorenzo Lamas

There is something very wrong with a people who consider that the greatest that would ever be has already been, and that the best they can do is to duplicate the past. — Abraham Eraly

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance. — Amy Chua

O, Need's a funny fish: it makes people untruthful. They all suffer from it, but they will not always admit. — Salman Rushdie