Eileen Myles Quotes

In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyChildrenSmartBadThree

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

Andy Samberg

LifeDaySchoolCollegeGraduation

I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.

Anand Mahindra

MemoriesSchoolSwimmingTennisFond

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

ManStupidDoubtSomethingBegins

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

Simon Cowell

LoveBusinessMusicPowerAmazing

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

Rivers Cuomo

MusicSchoolBackLifestyleRock

Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I think that Roddy has a reputation for being a rebel. I don't think that's a big secret.

Roddy Piper

WordsReputationThinkMouthRebel

I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.

Luke Kirby

LookingProblemWayHelpfulBeen

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

BusinessPoliticsGameEarnest

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

Pierce Brosnan

EducationSchoolFeelingSometimes

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.

Norm Coleman

HeartWarEvilNever ForgetCreating

If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when interest rates rise. Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds.

Kenneth Fisher

YouRiseRiskSamePayGet

I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.

Kevin Parker

MyselfMoralsBadVegetarianOut

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