Isaac Asimov Quotes
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Quotes to Explore
-
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
-
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
-
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
-
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
-
What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
-
With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
-
Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
-
When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
-
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
-
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
-
We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
-
I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
-
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
-
I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
-
There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.
-
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
-
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
-
The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.
-
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
-
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
