Toklas Alice Quotes & Sayings

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas

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

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid. — Alice B. Toklas

You have to open yourself up to the universe's possibilities. — Jennifer Weiner

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise. — Alice B. Toklas

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music. — Dan Fogelberg

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. — Alice B. Toklas

Mathilde let him eat two doughnuts, and his eyes filled with tears because they were the most amazing doughnuts in the history of glazed doughnuts, food of the gods. He was full of joy. — Lauren Groff

I don't keep a mobile, I am not computer savvy; I am not on any website. I live like a cave man. — Cyrus Broacha

If an individual has a calm state of mind,
that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
even in the presence of great agitation. — Dalai Lama

But I don't want nutrition. I want food! — Alice B. Toklas

The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that they have for the other arts, for painting, for literature, and for the theatre. We foreigners living in France respect and appreciate this point of view but deplore their too strict observance of a tradition which will not admit the slightest deviation in a seasoning or the suppression of a single ingredient. Restrictions aroused our American ingenuity, we found combinations and replacements which pointed in new directions and created a fresh and absorbing interest in everything pertaining to the kitchen. — Alice B. Toklas

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

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

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God. — Charles Dickens

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

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing. — Alice B. Toklas

What is the answer?
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question? — Gertrude Stein

You like to act as if you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you're going to drown in the abyss you have imagined for yourself. — Alice Oseman

Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind and out of your world every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view. — George Matthew Adams

I had often said that I would write, the wives of geniuses I have sat with. I have sat with so many. I have sat with wives who were not wives, of geniuses who were real geniuses. I have sat with real wives of geniuses who were not real geniuses. In short, I have sat very often and very long with many wives and wives of many geniuses.' Gertrude Stein wrote this in the voice of her partner, Alice B. Toklas, Stein being apparently the genius, Alice apparently the wife.
'I am nothing,' Alice said after Gertrude dies, 'but a memory of her.'
... the flashing blues and red made him look ill, then well, then ill again ... — Lauren Groff

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice. — Alice B. Toklas

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite. — Jean Paul

Experience is never at bargain price. — Alice B. Toklas

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care. — John Barrasso

Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see? — Kobo Abe

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. — Henry Beston

Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ... — Alice B. Toklas

I can't tell you what to do. No one can. But as the mother of two children, I can tell you what most moms will: that mothering is absurdly hard and profoundly sweet. Like the best thing you ever did. Like if you think you want to have a baby, you probably should.
I say this in spite of the fact that children are giant endless suck machines. They don't give a whit if you need to sleep or eat or pee or get your work done or go out to a party naked and oiled up in a homemade Alice B. Toklas mask. They take everything. They will bring you the furthest edge of your personality and abso-fucking-lutely to your knees.
They will also give you everything back. Not just all they take, but many of the things you lost before they came along as well. — Cheryl Strayed

Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely. — Peter Weir

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

Seth's clock had been set on survival so long that he didn't realize that he was starving himself of an essential element of being, that of having fun — Kenneth Eade

The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift. — Alice B. Toklas

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. — Alice B. Toklas

I can still see her face
The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I'm lost inside, my soul
all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be
shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy. — Chris Claremont