Top 100 Eileen Quotes
#2. If you're making love to a man of God, then God must endorse your lovemaking.
Eileen Pollack
#3. There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders.
Jeffrey Ashby
#5. Never mind. Bye, Carmen. Don't go out and get radical or anything.
THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER
Eileen Granfors
#6. Some people said, "we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this". The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.
Eileen Collins
#7. Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
Eileen Myles
#8. I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
Eileen Myles
#9. A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
Eileen Caddy
#10. It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.
Eileen Myles
#11. To split the very sea into ours and theirs. Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets
Eileen Granfors
#12. If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
Eileen Myles
#13. He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key.
Eileen Wilks
#14. Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they're gone.
Eileen Wilks
#15. We're guys. I punched him, he hit me back, and then everything was fine. We went out for ice cream after.
Eileen Cook
#16. You're not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are responsible for how you react to what happens to you. You either stay on your knees or you get up. Those are your choices.
Eileen Cruz Coleman
#17. Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
Eileen Myles
#18. Why is it they say you always hurt the ones you love? Because you know exactly how to do it.
Eileen Cook
#19. It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
Eileen Caddy
#20. I've always remembered the celebrant at my friend Eileen's wedding saying that one of the most important things in marriage is for the woman to abandon herself to her husband,' Em said. 'Not to submit to him, or obey his every wish, but just to trust him completely with her heart.
Danielle Hawkins
#21. The thought of not having a chance to kiss me again made you throw yourself off a roof. I should be more careful. I know the effect I can have on women.
Eileen Cook
#22. Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.
Eileen Cook
#23. Rahab pondered the thought. "I don't suppose a pomegranate or a fig as an offering would have the same effect on our hearts. To see an innocent life taken in our place is much more humbling than offering Adonai fruit.
Jill Eileen Smith
#24. Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
Eileen Myles
#25. Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.
Eileen Wilks
#26. Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing, ...
Eileen Wilks
#27. Your dad does like you. In fact, he wants to protect you from me. He told me to not bother trying to get my claws into you and drag you down to my level.
Bother. Definitely bother. I like the idea of you getting your claws into me.
Eileen Cook
#28. Then it occurred to me: You either waited for someone else to do the right thing, or you stood up and did it yourself.
Eileen Cook
#29. Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.
Eileen Wilks
#30. Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.
Eileen Claussen
#31. It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.
Eileen Wilks
#32. I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident
Eileen Collins
#33. I'm proud of you, honey. This is a positive thing to have in your life. I'm glad to see you moving in the right direction.
I wasn't aware I was going in the wrong direction.
Eileen Cook
#34. I was going to Yale, for crying out loud. How could anyone think I was guilty of murder?
Eileen Cook
#35. Secure the hearts of the nation's menopausal millions, Eileen knew, and no jury would dare convict her.
Rupert Smith
#36. If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
Eileen Myles
#38. Ah. Morrigan, a voice said behind me. I jumped and spun around. Jesus. She must have been wearing super-quiet librarian shoes.
Eileen Cook
#39. We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can't, mostly, but we want to.
Eileen Wilks
#40. Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.
Eileen Myles
#41. I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
Eileen Myles
#42. Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
Lauren Hutton
#43. Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepare to make?
Eileen Goudge
#44. The miracle of children is that we just don't know how they will change or who they will become.
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
#45. Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
Eileen Myles
#46. My favourite all time quote is from Eileen Gray, the subject of my new book The Interview. She believed, 'to create one must first question everything'. A concept that applies to writing as to life
Eileen Gray
#47. He looks at me for a long moment. "You're not the type of woman who gives up easily, are you?" I
can't tell if he admires this trait or sees it as a sign of deteriorating mental health.
Eileen Cook
#48. Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Eileen Caddy
#51. It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
Mary Oliver
#52. You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.
Eileen Pollack
#53. Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy
#55. I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.
Eileen Collins
#56. Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.
Eileen Myles
#57. He answered with the sudden flash of a grin, so much less seductive than his smile. So much more dangerous. He was real when he grinned.
Eileen Wilks
#58. In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.
Eileen Myles
#59. My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go.
Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?
Eileen Wilks
#60. When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
Eileen Myles
#61. One of the most primal survival instincts the brain has is finding pattern and assigning meaning. When there is a breakdown, it will scramble to find those patterns again as quickly as possible.
Eileen Cook
#62. Am I supposed to want you this much?
Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish.
Eileen Wilks
#63. Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies ...
Eileen Chang
#64. When everyone was falling in and out of love with some random guy they sat next to in history, I never felt swoony or envious. It seemed a waste. Guys, or at least the ones I'd met, didn't seem worth the bother.
Eileen Cook
#65. Anyone else asks how I'm doing I'll say okay, and that wil be bullshit. It's true, but it'll stil be bullshit.
Eileen Wilks
#67. But I see how he watches the stars,
And he talks to people just because,
And gee, it would be nice to have a friend."
From "Fated" in BREATHE IN
Eileen Granfors
#68. Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories
Eileen Granfors
#70. Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy
#71. I never worried about being a whale stalker before. I promise to leave them unmolested from now on.
Eileen Cook
#72. Life isn't supposed to be predictable.
Eileen Cook
#73. From "Caleb's Crossing"
This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.
"Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.
Geraldine Brooks
#75. He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him
Eileen Wilks
#76. There is no place on you I can't love, and love grants me entry ...
Eileen Wilks
#77. Having someone you can talk to is cool, but it's been my experience that it is a lot harder to find someone you can be quiet with.
Eileen Cook
#78. Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.
Eileen O'Brien
#79. Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.
Hattie Morahan
#81. It wasn't like I had a plan, but it wasn't a mistake.
Eileen Cook
#82. When one door closes another opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. Feel yourself grow with every experience. And look for the reason for it.
Eileen Caddy
#83. When you're seventeen and the only friend you have in town is a stuffed animal that doesn't even belong to you, I think it's safe to say your life is officially in the shitter.
Eileen Cook
#84. The future projects light, the past only clouds
Eileen Gray
#85. I'm not afraid," I said, reminding myself and also putting the house on notice just in case.
"Well, that's a good thing," a voice said.
I screamed and whirled around.
Eileen Cook
#87. Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.
Eileen Caddy
#88. Looks to me like you need help. Do you know that you're wearing Thursday panties and today's Monday?
Eileen Cook
#89. Jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in
Eileen Wilks
#91. SAN Diego slid from July into August like a baker slides a fresh sheet of cookies into the oven - quick and smooth, with the new panful of days set to cook up crisp.
Eileen Wilks
#92. Do you like kids?
Only with barbecue sauce.
Eileen Cook
#93. Deep down, I'm afraid you're correct," Sister Eileen said finally. "But I can hardly bear the thought of someone we know being a murderer." "Eileen," Mary Helen said bluntly, "every murderer is someone somebody knows." The
Carol Anne O'Marie
#94. Great changes are about to take place in the whole universe. It will not be a comfortable time. It is important that each one has no fear, no concern, knowing that this great upheaval is necessary before the next step can be taken.
Eileen Caddy
#95. Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying ...
Spring Flight
Eileen Granfors
#96. Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
Eileen Myles
#97. Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.
Eileen Caddy
#98. All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself.
Eileen Caddy
#99. Step-parents, those fairy tale villains,
Have been given a bad name.
They're easy targets.
When the family goes awry
How easy to blame them.
I was blessed by the right steps ...
Eileen Granfors
#100. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
Dorothea Lasky
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