Quotes

“I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.” Charlie Sheen

“I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.” Charlie Sheen

“The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.” Charlie Sheen

“I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.” Charlie Sheen

“Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.” Charlie Sheen

“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.” Charlie Sheen

“I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.” Charlie Sheen

“What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.” Charlie Sheen

“When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.” Charlie Sheen

“I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.” Charlie Sheen

“Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

“For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

“Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

“If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.” Isaac Bashevis Singer