Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 21, 1902 - July 24, 1991

Topics

PracticePeopleLogicDoneSayTry

I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.

John Gregory Dunne

GreatPeopleMeetingBeingTraveling

I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.

Meghan Daum

MeThinkSelf-LoveToo MuchMuch

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

Matthew Lesko

CommunicationYouWhiteKnowLying

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

Amanda Fuller

ChildSomeoneYouLovingPlayWant

I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing!

Steve Jones

SexNothingSoloAcousticAlbum

Yehudi Wyner has reinvented for himself a Romanticism that somehow manages to seem like a step forward rather than a step back.

Steven Stucky

StepForwardBackRomanticismSeem

I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI's, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.

Siri Hustvedt

StressPeopleBrainThinkYouKnow

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

Michael Trucco

HomeMirrorGrowing UpLunchGun

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

Jason Mraz

LiveGreatChallengeYourselfEffort

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Dolph Lundgren

BeautifulHateSmartPeopleMeBig

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

Arthur Laffer

ThinkBadCountryTradeBeingOur

I'm not sure if I'll make the Europeans feel bad, but I'll say it like this: The U.S. crowd is even better than the European crowd.

Martin Garrix

BetterFeelBadSayCrowdSure

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