Leon Askin quotes

“In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Morning Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Lunch Quotes

“The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Mother Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Fields Quotes

“I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

#Military Quotes #Air Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Cities Quotes #Recognition Quotes #Birth Quotes

“Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Father Quotes #Party Quotes #Used Quotes

“1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.”
-- Leon Askin

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Directors Quotes #Actors Quotes #Producers Quotes

“My father was an ardent socialist for many years.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Father Quotes #Years Quotes #Socialist Quotes

“To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.”
-- Leon Askin

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Honor Quotes #Actors Quotes #Disadvantages Quotes

“Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.”

“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”

“When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.”

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

“Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”

“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”

Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

“The free lunch has still to be invented.”

“The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.”

Source : "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.

“Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."”

Source : Allan Sherman (1973). “The Rape of the APE (American Puritan Ethic): The Official History of the Sex Revolution, 1945-1973: the Obscening of America, an RSVP (redeeming Social Value Pornography) Document”

“That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch," she (Kat) said. "You know," Angus said, "I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy--" "We're not blowing up my company, Angus," Hale said. "Righto. Carry on, Kitty.”