Isaac Asimov Quotes

Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English.

Isaac Asimov

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• Bible

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• When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Learning
  • English
  • Years

• When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Animal
  • King
  • Once

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Family
  • English

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • English
  • Intelligence

• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Way
  • English
  • Language

• The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Day
  • Morning

• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Life
  • Mind
  • King

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • King
  • Broken

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  

  Mae West
  • English
  • Body
  • Speak

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Want
  • English

• Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

  

  Maurice Druon
  • Good
  • Song
  • Poetry

• The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Past
  • Jesus
  • Bible

• The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Earth
  • Average movie
  • Political arena

• You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

  

  David Johansen
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Wind

• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

  

  Questlove
  • Great
  • Music
  • Believe

• Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • English
  • King
  • Bible