Toklas Quotes

#1. Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

Jack Kornfield

#2. Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein

#4. It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

Liam O'Flaherty

#5. In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

Alice B. Toklas

#6. The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Alice B. Toklas

#7. The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which ... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

Hans Berger

#8. I'd ended up sprawled across his chest, which was actually broader than it looked. Navy blue is a slimming colour, I guess.

Stacey Kade

#9. Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

Alice B. Toklas

#10. A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

#11. Love is the only real threat to the system.

Bryant McGill

#12. Some people explore who they think they might be. Then some people explore who they already are and empower it.

Candice Swanepoel

#13. You're always a kid around your parents ... Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

Sarah Dessen

#14. Life is measured by how you lived it, not by the years.

Gabriel Iglesias

#15. This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Alice B. Toklas

#16. It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

Jill Scott

#17. Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Alice B. Toklas

#18. 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

#19. As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Alice B. Toklas

#20. 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

#21. Experience is never at bargain price.

Alice B. Toklas

#22. Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ...

Alice B. Toklas

#23. I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

Terence McKenna

#24. I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

Alice Sebold

#25. Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

Alice B. Toklas

#26. Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

Christian Smith

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Alice B. Toklas

#30. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

Alice B. Toklas

#31. What is the answer?
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein

#32. What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

James Salter