Mordechai Kaplan Quotes & Sayings

If you're an actor, go out and act. — Simon McBurney

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out. — Richie Norton

The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and he receives favor from the LORD. — Anonymous

I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say. — Larry The Cable Guy

She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper — Travel Schedule

I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated. — Donald Judd

Douglas R. Hofstadter, an American researcher, speculates that the human mind has consciousness because it has the capability of self-reference. Since we can think about ourselves and think about ourselves thinking about ourselves, etc., we are capable of feeling that we are an "I". Contrast that with what we have learned in this chapter. This chapter tries to show that the computer's ability to perform self-reference is the cause of its limitations. Can we say that self-reference in computers brings limitations while in humans it causes consciousness? Perhaps. — Noson S. Yanofsky

The most she could wring from him was a promise that he would say nothing uncivil to Mrs Scorrier unless she offered him provocation, and with this she had to try at least to be satisfied. But as what Aubrey might regard as provocation depended to a large extent upon his mood her expectations were not high; — Georgette Heyer

So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the fireplace of a country cottage, with a sympathetic soul opposite me. And I shall go on talking, in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars. — Ford Madox Ford

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. — Ellsworth Kelly

Actually, I was trying to figure out if we were on a date, albeit one that had started at eight thirty in the morning. — Robyn Schneider

If u r self-inspired to turn idle curiosity into an active quest, u r living at the fullest else ordianarism prevails. — Sushobhan

My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant — Tonny K. Brown

She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything; — Frances Hodgson Burnett