Isaac Asimov Quotes

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

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• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Poet
  • Take

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Bird

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Mom
  • New
  • Times Square

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• I think I've been a great citizen.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Citizen

• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • World
  • Great
  • Mind

• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Racism

• I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Art
  • Power
  • True

• He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Great
  • Book
  • Nature

• BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • You
  • Me
  • Vote

• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Rest
  • Ideas

• Right Direction Cookies are a delicious way to help lower cholesterol for those with mild to moderate high cholesterol. Right Direction Cookies are real chocolate chip cookies with added benefits. These cookies can be part of a cholesterol-lowering treatment regimen that includes prescription medication, diet and exercise.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Real
  • Help
  • High

• Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.

  

  Ian Hogarth
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Fun
  • Exercise
  • Interviews

• The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Last
  • November
  • Miles

• I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Literature

• It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Exercise