Isaac Quotes

It's the writing that teaches you.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

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.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

All evil is good become cancerous.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

There's no repentance in the grave.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

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

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

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

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.