Elinor Lipman famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

  • The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.

  • I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

  • The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

  • One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

  • It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

  • There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.