Lipman Quotes & Sayings

It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid - just a kid who didn't work hard enough. You are going to fix this problem, he said when he diag- nosed whatever was wrong, and there was never any question. Of course you would. It was just a matter of trying and trying and trying some more. He yelled not because we'd never learn, but because he was absolutely certain that we would. — Joanne Lipman And Melanie Kupchynsky

Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members. — Jean Lipman-Blumen

If you have a sweet tooth and you're making a concerted effort to get yourself off sugar, take a supplement called glutamine when you have a craving (1,000 milligrams every four to six hours as needed). — Frank Lipman

An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me ... And you know, people like happy endings. — Elinor Lipman

Yet there was something intoxicating about a teacher who had such absolute confidence - faith, really - in my ability to do better. Whatever I managed to achieve, he expected more. — Joanne Lipman

There is an old Jewish story, an ordinary Jewish joke. A father was teaching his little son to be less afraid and have more courage. "Jump," he said, "and I will catch you." And the little boy trusted him and the little boy jumped. And when his father caught him he felt filled with love. And when he didn't, he was filled with something else ... something more. Life. (From the movie 'Then She Found Me.') — Elinor Lipman

Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones. — Joanne Lipman

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went. — Maureen Lipman

MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view - and most important, to take pleasure in listening. — Joanne Lipman

I hadn't known up to that moment that I had a surname that was recognizably Jewish, or that people named Marx would be unwelcome somewhere in the United States because of it. — Elinor Lipman

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones. — Lipman Bers

It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else. — Elinor Lipman

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star! — Wally Lamb

...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization. — Samuel Lipman

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge. — Maureen Lipman

You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view. — Maureen Lipman

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping. — Elinor Lipman

As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do. — Maureen Lipman

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up. — Elinor Lipman

I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation. — Maureen Lipman

It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews. (The Inn at Lake Devine) — Elinor Lipman

What usually works: Simple sells. When you have to get out an encyclopedia and an Excel sheet to show somebody how much they make on a stream that comes by way of ad revenue, it gets a little complicated. — Monte Lipman

Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye. — Cathleen Schine

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on. — Elinor Lipman

They misunderstand us, they unwittingly belittle us, they do something that they think is nice that instead just makes us mad. And those are the good ones. — Joanne Lipman

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law. — Lori Lipman Brown

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station. — Elinor Lipman

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it? — Maureen Lipman

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts. — Elinor Lipman

I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I. — Maureen Lipman

Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts. — Matthew Lipman

What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations. — Maureen Lipman

Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither. — Maureen Lipman

I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated. — Monte Lipman

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman

There is no happiness without hard work — Joanne Lipman And Melanie Kupchynsky

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not — Elinor Lipman

Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets. — Firoozeh Dumas

Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I know I can be at my desk by 10.15am and I can even fit in a workout before rehearsals. Power Plate exercise is not at all intimidating, and I know that in a short session I have had a complete workout. — Maureen Lipman

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes. — Maureen Lipman

Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes. — Lipman Bers

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth. — Maureen Lipman

Mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem
a great poem
is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
or are poems. — Lipman Bers

Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what that means. Everybody who says that is being naive. — Monte Lipman

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon. — Maureen Lipman