Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Light
  • Evil

• We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Together

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • You
  • Best
  • Worst

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Opportunity
  • Difference

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• Awards are for young people. They just are.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Young
  • Awards

• It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Take
  • Studio

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Place
  • Conscience

• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • Quality
  • Lie

• Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Achievement
  • Achieve
  • Union

• From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Suffering

• If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Life
  • Death

• I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Work
  • Important

• Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Education

• It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Believe
  • Teaching
  • Knowing

• I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer