Satanic Verses/tabar%c4%abs Account

Famous quotes containing the words satanic, verses and/or account:

    of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
    flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
    bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—
    Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)