I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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Related There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and th... TABATHA COFFEY What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like... DUSTIN DIAMOND I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of peopl... DAVE CHAPPELLE But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you... SHAKIRA You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something.... LANE KIRKLAND I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of w... ELLEN DEGENERES I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I ... JAMIE DORNAN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you e... DAVID HAREWOOD I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really ... JASON ISBELL It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go... NORM MACDONALD A lot of people say to me, 'Stay grounded; be humble.' David Schwimmer was just like, 'Y... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that.... JEFF NICHOLS I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four y... CLINT EASTWOOD 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'the... DJ KHALED The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, ... LOUIS C. K. For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for... CHARLES S. DUTTON I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I do... JACK DEE It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famo... AMANDA SEYFRIED Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... ANNIE PARISSE I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo... OLIVER STONE When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you&... CHARLIE FINK People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't s... GREGG ALLMAN Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most... HANS MATHESON Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody&... D. A. PENNEBAKER I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is go... THOMAS RHETT Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a l... ASHTON KUTCHER I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than ... JAMIE JOHNSON I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who ... TIM BURTON It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's... CHERYL HINES Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the ... DAVID DUCHOVNY I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do ... PETE POSTLETHWAITE Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having ... BETH HENLEY It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for... OMAR DORSEY You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something differen... JOSEPH BOLOGNA Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there'... EDIE CAMPBELL Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, wher... MIKE NICHOLS I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then i... GRACE JONES Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don'... CHRIS CARTER When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... JACK WHITE If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out... JACK WELCH I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what tha... DYLAN MORAN It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Denn... NATHAN LANE Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'yo... BOB SAGET I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't... MISSY ELLIOTT You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir... DARIN STRAUSS There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d... ROBIN WILLIAMS There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite ... WILL.I.AM I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behin... BETTY WRIGHT I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you... ELMORE LEONARD It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you.... TEA LEONI In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure... RANSOM RIGGS I think it's very insulting to say, 'White people don't understand.' What are you ta... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone.... CARMEN ELECTRA I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others... JERRY GARCIA There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out o... MIKE YACONELLI I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they a... JIM HARRISON There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And th... RAINN WILSON I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next do... CHINUA ACHEBE I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It... ANNA KENDRICK I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and ... BETH DITTO The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and als... BECKY G It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... CLARENCE THOMAS Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don Mc... JAKE BUGG It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they ra... MICHELLE OBAMA When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... DANICA PATRICK A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they... SYLVIA BROWNE I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, ... MATT MCGORRY What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have t... HOWARD SCHULTZ I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child ac... JEFF NICHOLS There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I... CHRIS LOWE In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people,... MICK FLEETWOOD Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don... JOHN DIMAGGIO Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th... NAOMIE HARRIS You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a pro... TOBIN BELL When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu... DEMETRI MARTIN I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't ... RADHA MITCHELL Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t... VANESSA HUDGENS If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the s... JOSEPH MORGAN Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. The... KYLIE JENNER I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. An... HELENA BONHAM CARTER I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there... TRISTAN WILDS In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally r... LIAM NEESON To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you an... ROGER FEDERER The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a cra... SAM SHEPARD
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year. OSCAR ISAAC I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino act... OSCAR ISAAC I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm.... OSCAR ISAAC When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playin... OSCAR ISAAC The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remembe... OSCAR ISAAC For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. OSCAR ISAAC I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. OSCAR ISAAC Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. OSCAR ISAAC A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, see... OSCAR ISAAC I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is... 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OSCAR ISAAC If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you&... OSCAR ISAAC I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's li... OSCAR ISAAC My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ... OSCAR ISAAC I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ISAAC NEWTON If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth bu... ISAAC NEWTON Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business. ISAAC HAYES I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchest... ISAAC HAYES I love music. ISAAC HAYES I influence people, hopefully on the positive side. ISAAC HAYES Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. ISAAC HAYES Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. ... ISAAC HAYES The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tel... ISAAC HAYES Know the business, learn the business, own something. ISAAC HAYES All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. ... ISAAC HAYES I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go ... ISAAC HAYES I used to stand in front of the mic and cry. ISAAC HAYES Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because mus... ISAAC HAYES I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and ever... ISAAC HAYES I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values. ISAAC HAYES There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and ... ISAAC HAYES I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time... ISAAC HAYES A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that l... ISAAC HAYES There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you... ISAAC HAYES There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how... ISAAC HAYES Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured. ISAAC HAYES Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused. ISAAC HAYES Texas is a pretty free state. ISAAC HANSON My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age. ISAAC HANSON Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they... ISAAC HANSON Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around. ISAAC HANSON 'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the p... ISAAC HANSON The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome. ISAAC HANSON I've got angels watching out for me. ISAAC HANSON I'm a proud family man. ISAAC HANSON Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's str... ISAAC HANSON Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video,... ISAAC HANSON Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were m... ISAAC HANSON There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album. ISAAC HANSON People my age don't always know where their music comes from. ISAAC HANSON We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery. ISAAC HANSON Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills ... ISAAC HANSON 'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason th... ISAAC HANSON Christmas albums are not something you do frequently. ISAAC HANSON Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson. ISAAC HANSON Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing. ISAAC HANSON I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time. ISAAC HANSON Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity. ISAAC HANSON It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the dif... ISAAC HANSON Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us. ISAAC HANSON Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher. ISAAC HANSON But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music. ISAAC HANSON There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world. ISAAC GOLDBERG Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or o... ISAAC D'ISRAELI The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to ... ISAAC D'ISRAELI To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning an... ISAAC D'ISRAELI After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n... ISAAC D'ISRAELI All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contigu... ISAAC D'ISRAELI The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. ISAAC D'ISRAELI The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty o... ISAAC D'ISRAELI It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to ... ISAAC D'ISRAELI Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Or... ISAAC D'ISRAELI I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any v... ISAAC BROCK I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putt... ISAAC BROCK Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seatt... ISAAC BROCK I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a majo... ISAAC BROCK 'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were worki... ISAAC BROCK Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they ... ISAAC BROCK If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's ... ISAAC BROCK I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a... ISAAC BROCK As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putti... ISAAC BROCK The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom ... ISAAC BROCK I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.... ISAAC BROCK If I start working on something, I get a little too driven. ISAAC BROCK Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options. ISAAC BROCK When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm play... ISAAC BROCK Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendat... ISAAC BARROW No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will cons... ISAAC BARROW Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base ... ISAAC BARROW I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. ISAAC BARROW Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obli... ISAAC BARROW That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should liv... ISAAC BARROW That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction o... ISAAC BARROW If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict ther... ISAAC BARROW Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observ... ISAAC BARROW Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not b... ISAAC BARROW Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine... ISAAC BARROW It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. ISAAC BARROW He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion... ISAAC BARROW To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much... ISAAC NEWTON All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by t... ISAAC NEWTON Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ISAAC NEWTON It is not only the living who are killed in war. ISAAC ASIMOV John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II... ISAAC ASIMOV Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bomb... ISAAC ASIMOV I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. ISAAC ASIMOV The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ISAAC ASIMOV Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its... ISAAC NEWTON Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ISAAC ASIMOV The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard ... ISAAC NEWTON I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I s... ISAAC NEWTON A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of... ISAAC ASIMOV That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of... ISAAC NEWTON If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little fas... ISAAC ASIMOV I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold ISAAC WATTS As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God per... ISAAC NEWTON Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variet... ISAAC ASIMOV Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music... ISAAC STERN We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to se... ISAAC HANSON Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet... ISAAC WATTS Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are... ISAAC HANSON Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. ISAAC WATTS A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years. ISAAC TAYLOR Young fellows will be young fellows. ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and
flourishing in an immortal youth. ISAAC BARROW I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. ISAAC WATTS The Lord builds up Jerusalem, And gathers nations to his Name: His mercy melts the stubborn so... ISAAC WATTS Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, a... ISAAC WATTS In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong. ISAAC WILLIAMS Hope! thou nurse of young desire. ISAAC BICKERSTAFF If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. ISAAC MOPHATLANE Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. ISAAC ASIMOV What goes up must come down. ISAAC NEWTON All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way t... ISAAC MARION Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w... ISAAC ASIMOV If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ISAAC NEWTON Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ISAAC ASIMOV What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts mis... ISAAC MARION Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in a... ISAAC MARION My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, bec... ISAAC MARION Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ISAAC ASIMOV I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. ISAAC ASIMOV You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a... ISAAC ASIMOV It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. ISAAC ASIMOV Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie... ISAAC ASIMOV I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y... ISAAC ASIMOV 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber aga... ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ISAAC WATTS There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torm... ISAAC ASIMOV In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, b... ISAAC ROSENFELD Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. ISAAC DISRAELI The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. ISAAC DISRAELI Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from sc... ISAAC ASIMOV Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them. ISAAC ASIMOV There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. ISAAC ASIMOV Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ISAAC DISRAELI At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of... ISAAC ASIMOV I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. ISAAC ASIMOV John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom... ISAAC ASIMOV Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning... ISAAC ASIMOV How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every... ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE I ISAAC ASIMOV It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. ISAAC DISRAELI Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ISAAC ASIMOV Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. ISAAC GOLDBERG