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Max Eastman Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 4, 1883 - March 25, 1969

Topics

Lie Rest Think You Fall Down

Hair on a guy is something that attracts me first; if you've got a good head of hair, and you're able to style yourself in a way that's presentable, I think that's really important.

Good Style Yourself Me Hair Think

We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent - which wasn't a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.

Window Night America Someone Laundry

There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.

Life Good Heart Window Fly Learn

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

Andrea Riseborough

Home Women Men War Grandparents Who

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Value People Society Finding Write

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

Life Time Comedy Moments You Head

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.

Pressure Transparency More Need Own

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry Political Personal Tell Going

The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised.

Care Weird Way Always See I See

A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Beginning Habit Man Down Become Him

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know Clean Behave Take Plate Second

When you win in Montreal, it's the best place in the world to play hockey.

Best Win World Hockey You Play

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