Isaac Asimov Quotes
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Quotes to Explore
-
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
-
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
-
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
-
I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
-
It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
-
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
-
I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
-
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
-
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
-
If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
-
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
-
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
-
I'm ready for a different America.
-
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
-
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
-
Never put a sock in a toaster.
-
For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.
-
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
-
Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
-
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
-
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
-
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
