Baskin Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. — Erin Duffy

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way. — Leonard Baskin

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

if you look hard enough you'll find what you don't want. — Janie Baskin

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. — Eric McCormack

There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Marilyn Monroe is pissing me off, Charlie Chaplin owes me twenty bucks, that fucker Shrek tried to fuck my girlfriend at Baskin Robbins. — David Louden

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should. — Leonard Baskin

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. — Leonard Baskin

Sometimes there is nothing to hold me together. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do.
And if you don't
If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel.
And then they make the assumption
That you must not feel anything at all. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

He was my first love, my first love in the way that first loves are usually second or third or fourth loves. I still think about a stranger in a green jacket across from me in the waiting room at the DMV. About a blue-eyed man with a singed earlobe that I saw at a Baskin-Robbins with his daughter. My first that kind of love. I never got over him. I never get over anyone. — Rivka Galchen

Lookin' at ye is like baskin' in the summer sun after a long, cold winter. 'Tis like seein' home after a battle that's left ye empty and alone." He kissed her mouth, her nose, her eyes. "I dinna' know how 'tis possible, but each time I see ye, ye grow more beautiful to me. — Paula Quinn

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

She overslept, was rude to her barista at Starbucks, and had an inexplicable craving for Baskin Robbins. She moped. She pouted. And even though she'd hexed a man to fawn over her, repeatedly going, "Hey, you look familiar, can I buy you a drink?" with no recollection of the ten previous times he'd done it, she found no pleasure in the hijinks. She was in a funk. It bothered her. — Daniel Younger

I always felt I needed to teach to survive. — Leonard Baskin

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest. — Leonard Baskin

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. — Leonard Baskin

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life ... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. — Leonard Baskin

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading. — Leonard Baskin

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. — Leonard Baskin

I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself. — Jake Gyllenhaal

These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

If it's not a "Hell Yes!" then it's a "Hell No!"...it's that simple. — Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Know how to live with the time that is given you. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. — Leonard Baskin

Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. — Leonard Baskin

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.
But I might feel lucky this day and avoid the sticks and branches scratching and pulling at me. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

He had a supernatural grin. — Jane Baskin

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet
with just one person inside even
I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does. — Douglas Coupland

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. — Leonard Baskin

There were absolutely amazing photographs everywhere, on everyone's Facebook page and everyone's iPhone and Instagram, just floating around in cyberspace for eternity. People took hundreds and thousands of digital pictures; one or two, even twenty or a hundred, were bound to be great. All anyone had to do was click through them all and post the ones they liked, deleting the rest. But using film meant you never knew what was going to be a good picture, let alone a great one, until you were standing there looking at a contact sheet with a magnifying glass and deciding which to print.
Maybe nobody cared anymore, but then again, writers probably felt the same way when word processors were invented. Anyone with a story and a keyboard could write their memoir now, write the great American novel, or tweet a 140-character trope that gets retweeted and it read by hundreds of people every hour of every day. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. — Leonard Baskin

I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream. — Andrew Buchan

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. — Leonard Baskin

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. — Leonard Baskin

The art schools ... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. — Leonard Baskin

It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial. — Emma Forrest

One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet. — Philip Yancey

I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility. — Robert Dykstra

Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all. — Nora Raleigh Baskin