Top 25 Alice Toklas Quotes
#1. I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'
Jerry Seinfeld
#2. I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.
Gertrude Stein
#3. Bursting our belief bubble is an emotional experience we are conditioned to avoid, even if the belief itself is false.
Gary Van Warmerdam
#4. In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
Alice B. Toklas
#5. When one is painting one does not think.
Raphael
#6. If you cannot recognize the problem, there is no way that I could explain it to you."
He laughed, damn the man. "My goodness," he said, "that was an expert sidestep.
Julia Quinn
#7. The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
Alice B. Toklas
#8. Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
William, Saroyan
#10. This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
Alice B. Toklas
#11. Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
Alice B. Toklas
#12. Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!
Alice B. Toklas
#14. I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.
Alice B. Toklas
#16. Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ...
Alice B. Toklas
#17. I'm already harboring fugitives. If I'm going to aid,I may as well abet.
Leigh Bardugo
#18. Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
Alice B. Toklas
#19. What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
Alice B. Toklas
#20. The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
Alice B. Toklas
#22. This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.
Dave Barry
#23. I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.
Lloyd Waner
#24. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
Alice B. Toklas
#25. What is the answer?
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
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