Salman Rushdie Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.289, Random House

• Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Father, Eye

• I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

  Salman Rushdie

  Eye, World, Lessons

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1981.

• A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

  Salman Rushdie

  Eye, Men, Mistress

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “Shame”, p.124, Random House

• Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Eye, Water

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

• Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

  Source: bigthink.com

• The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

  Salman Rushdie

  Running, Writing, Eye

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