Isaac Asimov Quotes

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

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• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Man
  • Him
  • Telephone

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Scrutiny
  • Abroad

• I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

  

  Beck
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Piano

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Lost
  • Feet
  • Ground

• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Dream
  • Team

• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Law
  • City

• The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • World
  • Sun

• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Direct

• If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'

  

  Halsey
  • Fan
  • Provocative
  • Candid

• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • School
  • Very
  • Georgia

• I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Person

• He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Weird

• I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Know
  • Security
  • Pig

• Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Gifts
  • Receive
  • Literacy

• My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Comedy

• I have great respect for the unconditional teachers called books. Because from a book, you can either learn, or you can’t.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Great
  • Book
  • Respect

• The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a huge fan of the '80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Children
  • Care
  • Nevertheless

• Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

  

  Isaac Asimov