"One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Father Quotes #Names Quotes #West Quotes

“Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.”
“Love is someone you can be silly with”
“My first impression was that this guy [Ndamukong Suh] is very confident. For him to be so young, I was kind of caught off guard by how confident he was. But then my first time seeing him on the field, pretty much solidified why he was so confident. He's obviously a monster.”
“You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.”
“You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.”

Source : Chris d'Lacey (2011). “Fire Star”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.
“Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.”
“I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.
“The mind is the king of the senses, and the breath is the king of the mind”

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