J. A. Baker Quotes

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

Spring is my sweetheart.

Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

Suffering is seeing what Jesus sees, and joy is doing what Jesus does.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.