Kaplansky Quotes

#1. A good student is one who will teach you something.

Irving Kaplansky

#2. Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

John Ruskin

#3. This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not alone.

Arlaina Tibensky

#4. It seemed better to delay thinking.

Charles Bukowski

#5. Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Augustus William Hare

#6. People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Chris Weitz

#7. To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Mary Roach

#9. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, 'Here is a woman who doesn't mess around.' Steel in her spine, Hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's lives better.

Donna Brazile

#10. We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

Irving Kaplansky

#11. What you do today becomes your tomorrow.

Katie Cook

#12. And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

Jimmy Johnson

#13. I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

Jessica Pare