Isaac Asimov Quotes

Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.

Isaac Asimov

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• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Media

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Orange
  • Blossom

• So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Different
  • Fall

• I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Think
  • Problem

• Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • God
  • Help

• My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Comedy
  • Deep
  • Problems

• Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Why
  • True

• I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Community

• I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Movie
  • Alone

• Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Light
  • Woman

• You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Light

• No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Long
  • True
  • Small

• For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

  

  Aristotle
  • Constitution
  • Citizens
  • Habits

• You shape your own destiny.

  

  Chet Atkins
  • Destiny

• I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Silly

• To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Business

• Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Pretty

• I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• And my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose, which they had always thought from certain marks on my head and breast.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.

  

  Isaac Asimov