Top 100 Eastman Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that's okay.
Ari Eastman
Ari Eastman
#3. was proud of them because he himself had painted them. The order for the seats amounted to $90,000. Who do you suppose got the order - James Adamson or one of his competitors? From the time of this story until Mr. Eastman's death,
Dale Carnegie
#4. Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
Chuck Mangione
#5. My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Willie Stargell
#6. Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.
John Gould
#7. Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He
John Updike
#8. What Bell is to the telephone - or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography - Haloid could be to xerography.
Chester Carlson
#9. Eastman Jacob's legendary attempt to launch a car attached to a glider plane using Hampton's Tony Chesapeake Avenue as a runway only confirmed the Hamptonian's feelings that the Good Lord didn't always see fit to give book sense and common sense to the same individual.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#10. MY FULL NAME is Cadence Sinclair Eastman. I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.
E. Lockhart
#11. George Eastman, "My work is done why wait?" He then shot himself.
George Eastman
#12. As for the symphonic activities ... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.
Chuck Mangione
#13. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
#14. The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
Charles Eastman
#15. A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
George Eastman
#16. A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman
#17. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
#18. The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
George Eastman
#19. The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Charles Eastman
#20. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Eastman
#21. Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.
Crystal Eastman
#22. There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
Max Eastman
#23. The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
George Eastman
#24. Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Crystal Eastman
#25. People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman
#26. The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Max Eastman
#27. Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
#28. It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
Crystal Eastman
#29. He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
Max Eastman
#30. The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
Charles Eastman
#31. The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
Charles Eastman
#33. Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
Max Eastman
#35. Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
Charles Alexander Eastman
#36. Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Max Eastman
#38. A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman
#39. The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
Charles Eastman
#40. There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
Charles Eastman
#41. No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute ... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?
Crystal Eastman
#42. Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.
Charles Eastman
#43. Nearness to nature ... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
Charles Eastman
#44. No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
Charles Eastman
#45. I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Max Eastman
#47. I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.
Crystal Eastman
#48. That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman
#49. Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
Crystal Eastman
#50. The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
Charles Eastman
#51. I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.
George Eastman
#52. In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.
Dick Eastman
#53. If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.
Max Eastman
#54. A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
Crystal Eastman
#55. Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman
#56. I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
George Eastman
#57. He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
Charles Eastman
#58. Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
#59. I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
Crystal Eastman
#60. Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees ... and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.
George Eastman
#61. What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
George Eastman
#62. Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
Max Eastman
#63. Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always being a part of you.
Carol Ann Albright-Eastman
#64. It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
Charles Eastman
#65. To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? (suicide note)
George Eastman
#66. Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
#67. Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman
#68. I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.
George Eastman
#69. In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
Charles Eastman
#70. Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.
Crystal Eastman
#71. Your apologies hang heavy like the skeleton of the man I once thought I'd marry. I loved you more than I knew what to do with most days. But I do not know you now. And this stranger you've become makes my stomach hurt.
Ari Eastman
#72. The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
Charles Eastman
#74. The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman
#75. Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)
George Eastman
#76. It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
Crystal Eastman
#77. At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
Charles Eastman
#78. Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
Charles Eastman
#79. Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.
Crystal Eastman
#80. There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Charles Eastman
#81. The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
Max Eastman
#82. If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
Crystal Eastman
#84. Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
Charles Alexander Eastman
#85. If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person ...
Charles Alexander Eastman
#86. More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
Charles Eastman
#87. The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
#88. While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.
Crystal Eastman
#89. Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts,
George Eastman
#90. We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Charles Alexander Eastman
#91. The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Crystal Eastman
#92. In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
Charles Alexander Eastman
#93. Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
Charles Eastman
#94. A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman
#95. [S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.
Crystal Eastman
#96. The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
Charles Eastman
#97. Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman
#98. The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.
Crystal Eastman
#99. If you see a bird "feeding" on a cattail spike, observe closely: Is it delving for caterpillars or their cocoons? Or is it depositing or retrieving a food cache?
John Eastman
#100. Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Charles Eastman
