Baekeland Quotes

#1. A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

Michael Monroe

#2. I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

Antony Beevor

#3. Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

Leo Baekeland

#4. I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

Julie Andrews

#5. We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed

Janet Chapman

#6. We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

Joyce Meyer

#7. Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Dinesh D'Souza

#8. Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing

Aamir Khan

#9. I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Leo Baekeland

#10. Make me know Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. 5Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.

Anonymous

#11. You looked like the sexiest woman in the world."
"Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world."
"And you're always right."
"You are so brilliant to recognize that.

Rachel Caine

#12. How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Leo Baekeland

#13. The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

Milan Kundera

#14. Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.

Leo Baekeland