Leon Askin famous quotes

04-12-2025

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

#Morning #Coffee #Lunch
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
-- Leon Askin

#Mother #Theatre #Fields
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

#Military #Air #Interesting
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
-- Leon Askin

#Cities #Recognition #Birth
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

#Father #Party #Used
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 #Mean #Cities
Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
-- Leon Askin

#Directors #Actors #Producers
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
-- Leon Askin

#Father #Years #Socialist
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
-- Leon Askin

#Honor #Actors #Disadvantages

Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â 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.
The free lunch has still to be invented.
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
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."
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.

Leon Askin famous quotes

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