Kecskemeti Baptista Quotes

#1. Memories of her parents would sneak up on her and hit her from behind at odd moments, sometimes for the most inane of reasons. One of her friends in Iceland, a theology student named Sigridur, had called them grief tackles,

Sarah Wendell

#2. All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

Lewis Black

#3. [A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Edwin Land

#4. If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. I have avoided the fate my father planed for me, surely it is I who won not he.

Robin LaFevers

#6. Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

Dominique Swain

#7. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

W.C. Fields

#8. I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

Leslie Caron

#9. I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.

Norman MacCaig

#10. The ultimate aim of the scientist is not only knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but knowledge with the aim of overcoming that in our environment which he views as hostile. None of the acts of nature (or Nature) is more hostile than death.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#11. Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes.

Kim Stanley Robinson