Isaac Quotes

Love turns one person into two; and two into one.

All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

We smile, because this is how we save the world.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.

You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

I feign no hypotheses.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind