Top 40 Lipman Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.
Firoozeh Dumas
#3. Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.
Cathleen Schine
#4. Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.
Maureen Lipman
#5. 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
#6. Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
Lipman Bers
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.
Maureen Lipman
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
Elinor Lipman
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.
Maureen Lipman
#16. ...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.
Samuel Lipman
#17. There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.
Lipman Bers
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.
Maureen Lipman
#21. 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
#22. My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.
Maureen Lipman
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.
Maureen Lipman
#28. 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
#29. I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
Elinor Lipman
#30. You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.
Maureen Lipman
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right, then generally speaking, so am I.
Maureen Lipman
#34. I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.
Monte Lipman
#35. 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
#36. Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.
Matthew Lipman
#37. I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Elinor Lipman
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
