Isaac Asimov Quotes

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Isaac Asimov

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• I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Girl
  • Die
  • Movies

• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Book
  • Man

• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Long
  • Live
  • Funny

• Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Ecstasy

• I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Today
  • Road
  • End

• My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Know
  • Look
  • Forest

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
  • Practice

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Basketball
  • Try
  • Blood

• The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Power
  • Fear

• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Afghanistan

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Chicago

• How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Pronounce

• I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• Harry Dresden/Waldo Butters: Polka will never die!

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Die

• I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Reason
  • Film
  • Independent

• I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Die
  • Reason
  • Same