The best Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The best Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of his works were adapted for the theater.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

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Stories Surprises

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Vegetarians Chicken & Roosters

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

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Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture.

P. J. O'Rourke

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Miami - which is kinda the same.

You can leave Miami, but it will never leave you.

Miami is bringing in more guns, drugs and hot cars than any other city on the East Coast.

Phil Rask in StartUp - Season 1 Episode 3

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.

Shaquille O'Neal

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.

My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.

Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here.

Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.

Miami is always super, duper lit.

Post Malone

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Jerry Seinfeld

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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

Channing Tatum

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

Florida Washington (State)

I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.

Ron DeSantis - November 2018

"How you gonna get a gun?"
"This is Florida. The God damn state is shaped like a gun!"

Florida Man

Florida is America's bas*ment: it's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.

Robert California in The Office - Season 8 Episode 11

Wrong? We're in Florida. The state bird is a chicken finger.

Maury the Hormone Monster in Big Mouth - Season 3 Episode 5

Saudi Arabia... the country with bans on pork, alcohol and p*rn - or, as it's known in America: a Florida Breakfast.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Florida Saudi Arabia

Jerry: "Why Florida?"
Cat: "Because they don't ask questions. They play Volleyball, they party and they have fun."

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Saul Goodman: "How about Florida? You get a tan, meet the Swedish bikini team, you know, swim with the dolphins."
Jesse Pinkman: "What about... Alaska?"
Saul Goodman: "Alaska, okay. Well, that's a different vibe. I never figured you for a big moose lover, but whatever floats your boat."

Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad - Season 5 Episode 11

Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot.

Jules Verne in From the Earth to the Moon

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Florida.

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

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Stories Writing

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

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Stories Writing

True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

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Love Ending Stories

Jack: "What an unexpected surprise!"
Kate: "All surprises are unexpected."

Kate Bishop in Hawkeye - Season 1 Episode 1

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Pablo Escobar

I think falling in love is always a surprise, right?

Josh Dallas

Falling in love Surprises

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein (Scientist)

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I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Peter Dinklage

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.

Mayim Bialik

I went to a costume party dressed as a chicken and hooked up with a girl dressed as an egg.

Long story short:
The chicken.

Funny Quotes Chicken & Roosters Eggs

Alabamians don't tell you to wait before rushing a decision… they say "don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Alabama Chicken & Roosters

Normally, chicks run towards me instead of away from me. I'm losing my touch.

Joseph Van Aston in A California Christmas

Chicken & Roosters

Does it really need a reason to help somebody?

Zidane Tribal in Final Fantasy - IX

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Selflessness Being nice

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

J.M. Barrie

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Selflessness Positive Quotes Being nice

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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