Eileen Myles Quotes

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LovePoetryFeelFeelingsRising

The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, 'Please don't be nice to me. Just pay me.'

Jerry Lewis

GreatPeopleMeBe NicePictures

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

Andrew Greeley

WomenMenUpsetMoreBeingAble

I'm not good at sports, but I do exercise because we have to move. Besides walking my dog four times a day, I go to the gym and do 30 minutes on a stationary bike while reading a book because I get bored, then 10 minutes of weights and 10 of stretches.

Maye Musk

DogGoodSportsDayBikeReading

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Stephen Covey

LifeWorkAttitudeSmallYouWant

I'm on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I'll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.

Travie McCoy

TimeStopGoHimThriftCheck

In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had all of these great composers write songs for him. They call it the Great American Songbook; I call it the Fred Astaire Songbook because they were written for him.

Tony Bennett

GreatBeginningAmericanAmericaHim

Infrastructure done right can help working people; infrastructure done wrong is just more money for private equity.

Tom Perez

MoneyPeopleHelpWrongDoneRight

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Roger von Oech

WorkFailureOpportunityLearnYou

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

Rose George

LiveSeaMoreNeedShipsThan

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Mike Singletary

ResponsibilityJobThings Happen

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

Michael Palin

LoveWindowWorldCuriosityLooking

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.

Michael Leunig

LifeBeautifulHappyMostTimes

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