Quotes About Isaac

#1. Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

Isaac Mizrahi

#2. If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

Isaac Slade

#3. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

Isaac Jogues

#4. I can't seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.

Isaac Marion

#5. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

Isaac Marion

#6. God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

Isaac Newton

#7. Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

Isaac Stern

#8. The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.

Isaac Asimov

#9. I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#10. I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.

Isaac Marion

#11. The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

Isaac Hayes

#12. Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Isaac Watts

#13. It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Isaac Asimov

#14. I could go to juvie instead of real prison.

Isaac

#15. Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.

Isaac Asimov

#16. When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#17. Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,
in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

Isaac D'Israeli

#18. Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Isaac Newton

#19. To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Isaac Asimov

#20. Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.

Isaac Asimov

#21. You might say that death has relaxed me.

Isaac Marion

#22. The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

Isaac Newton

#23. You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

Isaac Newton

#24. There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Isaac Asimov

#25. Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#26. The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

Isaac Asimov

#27. Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Isaac Barrow

#28. Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they're so great ... Everything has air quotes around it now.

Isaac Mizrahi

#29. Murray said, "Is this Heaven?"
The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place."
Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God?

Isaac Asimov

#30. Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

Isaac Marion

#31. I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

#32. We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#33. I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Isaac Asimov

#34. It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#35. I am the God of your father Abraham' (Genesis 26:24a). God is not just identifying himself: he is also reaffirming his commitment. As the Lord was with Abraham, so he will be with Isaac. As his power was seen in the life of Abraham, so it will also be seen in the life of Isaac.

Samuel Ngewa

#36. I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more

Isaac Marion

#37. I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

Isaac Marion

#38. One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

Isaac

#39. Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Isaac Rosenberg

#40. To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

Isaac Asimov

#41. One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#42. And now a hundred subjective years had passed in those hundred objective hours and he could no longer clearly visualize the university at all or the life of sad frustration he had been leading there toward the end.

Isaac Asimov

#43. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.

Isaac Asimov

#44. Are you done yet?" called Isaac.
Charles tilted his head and called back, "I suppose that's why they call you the five-mintue wonder.

Patricia Briggs

#45. [A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.

Isaac Asimov

#46. Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Isaac Newton

#47. To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

Isaac Asimov

#48. If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Isaac Asimov

#49. Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Isaac Marion

#50. When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#51. This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself.

Erik Larson

#52. When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

Isaac Asimov

#53. Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

Isaac Newton

#54. Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Isaac Asimov

#55. Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

Isaac R. Trimble

#56. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Isaac Newton

#57. Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

Isaac Asimov

#58. Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

Isaac Deutscher

#59. The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

Isaac Newton

#60. I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Isaac Watts

#61. To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Isaac Asimov

#62. I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

Isaac Asimov

#63. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#64. I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

Isaac Asimov

#65. I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Isaac Rosenberg

#66. The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Cory Doctorow

#67. The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

Isaac Watts

#68. They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

Isaac Asimov

#69. And as long as it is so believed, Procurator, and as long as we of Earth are treated as pariahs, you are going to find in us the characteristics to which you object.

Isaac Asimov

#70. As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

Isaac Brock

#71. Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

Isaac Watts

#72. It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.

Isaac Marion

#73. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

Isaac Newton

#74. After finishing my drink I feel a pressure in my lower regions, and I realize I have to piss. Since the Dead don't drink, urination is a rare event. I hope I can remember how to do it.

Isaac Marion

#75. The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.

Isaac Watts

#76. The world is not yet redeemed.

Isaac Mayer Wise

#77. Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

Isaac Asimov

#78. I'm about to be shot 150 feet up in the air. I feel queasy!

Isaac

#79. A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#80. I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

Isaac Parker

#81. To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

Isaac Newton

#82. St. Isaac of Syria says, "Anything that is easily found is also easily lost, whereas what is found after much labor will be guarded with vigilance."37

Joseph Huneycutt

#83. If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

#84. It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

Isaac Asimov

#85. I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.

Oscar Isaac

#86. The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.

Isaac Asimov

#87. Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

Isaac Marion

#88. The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Isaac Asimov

#89. Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

Isaac Newton

#90. I love school and science; I also love piano and music.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#91. Good, evil - it all becomes blurred. You go far enough and everything turns to grey. And the power Isaac, you don't understand. The power I have now - I can't let it go. It's in my blood, it's right there in my soul. I can't let it go.

Matthew Head

#92. I refer you to my earlier statement. I love you, Ryder. It doesn't shut off because you run away. It doesn't die because you want it to in order to protect me. You think you're destroying me, but loving you strengthens me. Heals the broken.

Melyssa Winchester

#93. I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

Isaac Hayes

#94. I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

Isaac Asimov

#95. Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

Isaac Mizrahi

#96. The mistiness of distance hides the truth

Isaac Asimov

#97. Isaac had spent so much of the past year with his head down, focused on the filth around him, that he'd forgotten the beauty of his world.

Susan Fanetti

#98. What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked.
And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them."
I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#99. If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#100. At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

Isaac Asimov