Isaac Asimov Quotes

'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'

Isaac Asimov

Quotes to Explore

I don't miss acting at all.

Zachery Ty Bryan
- Acting
- Miss
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

Wayne Rogers
- Want
- Change
- Me
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

Edmund Hillary
- Up
- Important
- Play
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

E. L. Doctorow
- World
- God
- Done
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

Pat Barker
- Writing
- Story
- First
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

Barney Frank