Baekeland Barbara Quotes

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. ~ Leo Baekeland

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ~ Leo Baekeland

Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race. ~ Leo Baekeland

Hey, you're not supposed to find our magnificent organs amusing. ~ Barbara Elsborg

May the energy of the day always call for celebration. Barbara Botch ~ Barbara Botch

That should give him time for another wank. It was a good job masturbating didn't make you go blind. ~ Barbara Elsborg

Oh God, can I keep you? You don't need batteries, do you? ~ Barbara Elsborg

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret.
Barbara Botch ~ Barbara Botch

I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore. ~ Barbara Boxer

When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

He needs to go rub his soul against life. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

It's what you do that makes your soul. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Teenage boys were just a loose aggregation of appetites. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

in something for him, so I bought some white ~ Barbara Pym

Paris is always a good idea...
Audrey Hepburn ~ Barbara Donsky

mimosas dug for water and women like Auntie washed ~ Barbara Mutch

What a knot of history one mistake can become. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I have long relied on the comforts of martyrdom. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

She would die of him or be cured. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption. ~ Barbara Delinsky

Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I'm in it for the metaphor. ~ Barbara Stoner

A mother's unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Transcending reality by exploring it one story at a time... ~ Barbara Cutrera

Over the phone, her laughter sounded like a warm bath. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~ Barbara Tober

The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits ... ~ Barbara Kingsolver

You are every missing part of me. ~ Barbara Avon

Edit your author as you would be edited. ~ Barbara Sjoholm

A taste for better stuff is cultivated only through experience. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Concentrating when it's the hardest is what builds character ~ Barbara Delinsky

Five days and the train has passed through many underworlds. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Unfortunately, there isn't a rewind button to life. ~ Barbara Brooke

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. ~ Barbara Demick

Cheer Up the worst is yet to come! ~ Barbara Johnson

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age ~ Barbara Park

Perhaps all love had something of the ridiculous in it. ~ Barbara Pym

Every family's its own trip to China. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

At first, they would walk in silence, then their voices ~ Barbara Demick

stopped: a final swish in the tall grass ~ Barbara Kingsolver

All hope and future lost in a day. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall ~ Barbara Kingsolver

You must understand the language of your enemy. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Superstition has its practical uses. ~ Barbara Mertz

Life is hard and then we die! ~ Barbara Johnson

Put the baby on the paper. ~ Barbara O'Connor

There is no temptation from outside the heart. ~ Barbara Hambly

Her every possession was either unbreakable, or broken. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Out. He watched her when they were at Kate's tennis ~ Barbara Delinsky

There is a deep connection between technical, scientific, and artistic creativity. ~ Barbara Oakley

The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Move on. Walk forward into the light. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I swear, the cats did know me. They came without pause, ~ Barbara Delinsky

We walk towards nowhere, one foot in front of the other. ~ Barbara Hodgson

We went on record as half-bad musicians having wholehearted lives. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Ceremony-the wine of human existence - Morris R. Cohen ~ Barbara Jonas

Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes. ~ Barbara Bretton

We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I felt the breath of God go cold against my skin. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Is there any sadder sight than a burnt out library? ~ Barbara Vine

Mark Twain had written somewhere: We are all mad at night. ~ Barbara Vine

I'm not a one-issue person. ~ Barbara Bush

The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

before returning. "It's for you, Allie. ~ Barbara Warren

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Top-heavy sunflowers droop, their leaves baked golden by the August sun. ~ Barbara Stuber

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius ~ Barbara Cooney

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future? ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it. ~ Barbara Pym

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Anybody with a functioning brain cannot not know that something is wrong. ~ Barbara Demick

Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise ... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero. ~ Ana Barbara

Even when change is welcome, adapting to it doesn't always come easily ~ Barbara Morgenroth

Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose. ~ Barbara Minto

There is no point in doing something unless you do it well. ~ Barbara Delinsky

she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I write. See you there. ~ Barbara Johansen

There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus. ~ Barbara Branden

Maybe his stuff was so good it made her think she could fly! ~ Barbara Neely

Penitence is more attainable than permission. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I don't usually have facials. ~ Barbara Fialho

People had to manage terrible truths. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I'm a little old-fashioned. ~ Barbara Bush

God speaks for the silent man. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

King Billy nectaring on the harbinger. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

gentle curves that had not been ~ Barbara Delinsky

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents ~ Barbara Longley

What happened at school, she said. ~ Barbara Park

There will never be another Frida. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

But luck is just throwing dice. ~ Barbara Kingsolver