Salman Rushdie Quotes

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

We must say something, even when we know nothing.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Thought is made in the mouth.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Words are the wings of actions.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.