Top 47 Shulman Quotes

#1. Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #33121
#2. In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #64668
#3. What are you doing?"
"I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me.
"What's that lump inside?"
"A sock egg."
"A sock egg? I didn't know socks hatched from eggs."
"Only the best ones do. I can't wear the cheap kind, the ones that grow on trees. They give me blisters.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #130001
#4. Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.

Max Shulman

Shulman Quotes #140906
#5. If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #210879
#6. There is a lot of gender segregation. You still have many poor women who work in women-only jobs. In the family, in most cases, only women have the double job of working outside the home and taking care of the family.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #226325
#7. I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love was deep and silent - and therefore easily overshadowed.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #243381
#8. Eva, stop,' he moaned. 'A kiss from me could kill you...'
'Then it would be a good death,' I breathed, taking his face in my hands. And when our lips met, I knew that wherever this love took me, it was a place I wanted to go.

Dee Shulman

Shulman Quotes #299860
#9. I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.

Julius Shulman

Shulman Quotes #319849
#10. What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?

Julius Shulman

Shulman Quotes #342855
#11. The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #396194
#12. The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

Morton Shulman

Shulman Quotes #413730
#13. The camera is the least important element in photography.

Julius Shulman

Shulman Quotes #413834
#14. Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #492854
#15. Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?
How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #527034
#16. I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.

Milton Shulman

Shulman Quotes #640381
#17. People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #666751
#18. When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #728821
#19. Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #784827
#20. For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #790091
#21. It is bad enough to reinvent the wheel. What really hurts is when they reinvent the flat tire.

Lee S Shulman

Shulman Quotes #881250
#22. To make a million, start with $900,000.

Morton Shulman

Shulman Quotes #927488
#23. For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #933158
#24. We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #935947
#25. Only when we have something to value, will we have something to evaluate.. and we cannot value something that we cannot share, exchange, and examine.

Lee S Shulman

Shulman Quotes #970292
#26. When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #971397
#27. Good," said Dr. Rust. "Take Elizabeth up to stack 9 and show her the ropes."
"But the ropes are on stack 2."
"I meant metaphorically.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #996261
#28. Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

Lee S Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1017590
#29. As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again

Lee S Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1065890
#30. The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1191435
#31. Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1281183
#32. Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1339187
#33. As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1348607
#34. One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1376186
#35. There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!

Max Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1445409
#36. The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Julius Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1462488
#37. Nonsense," said another voice-Dr. Rust. "We're librarians. When we don't find what we're looking for in the first place we look, we don't give up. We keep looking.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1566354
#38. Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1594084
#39. And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1634452
#40. It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1635543
#41. Are you out of your candy wrapper?

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1667291
#42. I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1693532
#43. I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1784609
#44. My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1787231
#45. Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Alix Kates Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1824807
#46. Isn't that dangerous?" I objected. "What if somebody used it on people - what if they put it on replace and turned us all into fictional characters?"
"How do you know they haven't?" asked Marc.

Polly Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1864922
#47. His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

Jerry Shulman

Shulman Quotes #1869411

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