Eileen Myles Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1949

Topics

FamilyChildMeStudentSpecial

I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry!

Anastacia

I AmGlassesSorryWearBigSing

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

Travis Beacham

ExperienceMeRememberSeeingMovies

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Mason Cooley

NatureSocietyGarbageHumanItself

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Jose Marti

WorkPeopleSufferingEvilFree

Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.

Jonathan Miles

BirdGraceThingsWholePlateFew

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

Dennis Rodman

CharacterUnderstandEveryoneLike

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

Anthony Holden

QueenBetterOthersBeenPressThan

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

Asma Jahangir

SacrificeSufferingWorldLookHouse

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

Rick Santelli

GoodPoliticsCompromiseMuch

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Nicolas Chamfort

LoveMeFriendsLove MeAttention

I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.

Martin Garrix

MusicDayNewBehindComputerNerd

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

Lin Biao

WorldAmericaAfricaEuropeRural

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