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Up Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
- Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions…
- I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of…
- There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no…
- Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in…
- After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as…
- I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.
- Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a…
- Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful…
- 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.'…
- You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
- The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to…
- If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming…
- Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once..
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong