Eileen Quotes & Sayings

Don't you see? It's getting to us. The doll is messing with our feelings. I'm filled with all these thoughts of warmth and love and respect for all of you. Get it out. I went to the sink to splash water on my face. — Eileen Rendahl

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels. — Eileen Myles

Nice to know a few things aren't in the government's files,' he said, opening the front door and stepping out ahead of her. The human courtesy of waiting for the woman to go through a door was all flourish, no sense. If any danger waited on the other side of a door, he'd rather meet it himself, not send her into it. — Eileen Wilks

Oh, my father, such a difficult man.
His world turned on his axis.
From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN — Eileen Granfors

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful. — Eileen Atkins

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

I thought if I moved away, I could move away from all of it, but the memories were still with me. The fact that I was shy and awkward didn't change just because I changed locations. — Eileen Cook

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. — Eileen Myles

To be fair, it's not just cycling - the term "sporty" isn't used to describe me. I don't run unless something is chasing me, and I have some kind of visual-spatial ball deficiency. — Eileen Cook

The poet's life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We're hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both. — Eileen Myles

Where will Decadent Romance and Intrigue, Lead you? — Eileen Green

We're guys. I punched him, he hit me back, and then everything was fine. We went out for ice cream after. — Eileen Cook

Your first mistake may be your last - choose wisely — Eileen MacKenney

And how are your teeth tonight?
Can you afford to fix them? — Eileen Myles

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

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

It's not a competition, it's a doorway. — Mary Oliver

Who we are is what comes out when shit goes bad. You can't tell anything about a person when things are great. If you want to really know someone, be there when everything goes to hell. — Eileen Cook

Looks to me like you need help. Do you know that you're wearing Thursday panties and today's Monday? — Eileen Cook

I never worried about being a whale stalker before. I promise to leave them unmolested from now on. — Eileen Cook

The entrance hall was designed to impress. The floor was a buttery cream-colored marble and the walls were paneled in dark wood. I'm not a lumberjack, so I had no idea what kind of wood it was, but it looked expensive. — Eileen Cook

Everyone hits bottom their own way. — Eileen Brennan

I actually hate Christmas," says Eileen. "Everybody has this idea you have to have a good time, like happiness comes in a ruddy packet." Her face is flushed with heat. "One time, I stayed in bed all day. That was one of my best Christmases. — Rachel Joyce

I still think it's a wonderful world. — Eileen Cook

I was on the point of saying something about the power of positive thinking, but anyone who's reached the age of thirty ought to know at a glance when something is irredeemably fucked, and be mature enough to admit it. — Eileen Curtright

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this. — Eileen Brennan

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me. — Bill Mumy

Has is occurred to you that they're the same and you're the one who's different? — Eileen Cook

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good. — Eileen Wilks

HYPERBOLE IS THE BEST THING EVER! — Eileen Wilks

Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind. — Eileen Wilks

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation. — Eileen Claussen

I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life. — Eileen Myles

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be. — Eileen Caddy

We're basking in language itself. The silence of my friend. My love. The one beyond words in her silence. She is always eternally before. When she speaks it is shit, a gift, something to do. In our moment, of waiting, pointing, silent gear, what we went out for - that is pointing. Shit is the award. The award is shit. — Eileen Myles

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. — Eileen Myles

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt. — Eileen Wilks

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs — Eileen Caddy

But Miss Ferguson preferred science over penmanship. Philosophy over etiquette. And, dear heavens preserve them all, mathematics over everything. Not simply numbering that could see a wife through her household accounts. Algebra. Geometry. Indecipherable equations made up of unrecognizable symbols that meant nothing to anyone but the chit herself. It was enough to give Miss Chase hives.

The girl wasn't even saved by having any proper feminine skills. She could not tat or sing or draw. Her needlework was execrable, and her Italian worse. In fact, her only skills were completely unacceptable, as no one wanted a wife who could speak German, discuss physics, or bring down more pheasant than her husband. — Eileen Dreyer

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too. — Eileen Atkins

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. — Eileen Wilks

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable. — Eileen Caddy

If he only knew how often she and Eileen had discussed the benefits of Netflix on dateless weekend nights. — Kristin Billerbeck

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle. — Eileen Wilks

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill. — Eileen Favorite

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation. — Eileen Gray

Maybe I only wanted to believe I was the kind of person who would never do something to Simone. — Eileen Cook

I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country. — Eileen Myles

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

There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles. — Kelly Eileen Hake

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps. — Eileen Caddy

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak. — Eileen Myles

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

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr's hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak - a whispering that enables us into its world ... a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah - Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them. — Eileen Myles

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too. — Eileen Wilks

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. — Eileen Caddy

No boyfriend, I said, perhaps a little too quickly. Have I mentioned my total lack of social life? Having a dream about Alex last night was the closest thing I'd had to a date in months and that was only a dream and it was about a guy who was undead. Admittedly very sexy, but still completely undead. Although I have heard that vampire sex is supposed to be pretty damn good. — Eileen Rendahl

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. — Eileen Myles

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are. — Eileen Myles

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. — Eileen Myles

Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain. — Eileen Wilks

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

Because rich people need poor friends (but not too poor!) to maintain their connection to the struggle that spawned them even if they never struggled. Poor people tend to know what's going on plus they are often good-looking, at least when they are young and even later they are the cool interesting people the rich person once slept with, so the poor person always feathers the nests of the rich. — Eileen Myles

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact. — Eileen Myles

I couldn't decide if the fact that Nathaniel had watched me when I was sleeping was creepy or sort of exciting. God, I hoped I hadn't been lying there with my mouth open and drooling. — Eileen Cook

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere. — Eileen Claussen

The snake charmer should not touch the serpents before his child's eyes, knowing that the child will try to imitate him in all things. — Eileen Goudge

In a battle the "strong" is often weak and the "weak" is strong. Never under estimate ANYONE ... Break someone as you may but remember that God heals and Restores that which is broken. In the END HE will decide who is Strong and who is Weak. So treat people with Kind words and Actions because everything you Dish out YOU will have to EAT!!!! — Eileen Lwando Smith

How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act. — Eileen Claussen

You will find when you open your heart and can fill it with loving, beautiful thoughts, that you will want to love all those souls you come into contact with, no matter who they are. — Eileen Caddy

When she got to Eileen Reilly, Eileen turned red and said, "I would rather not say." This astounded me, for her father was a handsome, charming salesman at Home Savings Shoes on Main Street - Stan the Shoe Man, my mother affectionately called him. But his daughter had absorbed some disappointment - his, or her mother's - and did not want to speak of how he earned his living. Perhaps that was the moment I learned this as a source of personal shame, or observed the possibility of it. — Lorrie Moore

We aren't guaranteed the time we think we
need to mend fences with those we love. — Eileen Wilks

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle — Eileen Collins

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn. — Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Never mind. Bye, Carmen. Don't go out and get radical or anything.
THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER — Eileen Granfors

It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. — Eileen Myles

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they're gone. — Eileen Wilks

I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there's mystery and poetry in your life - not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again. — Eileen Myles

They were Chinese vampires. They were discovered during renovation work at the Bok Kai Temple in Old Sacramento. One of the priests there told his brother about them. The brother's whatever the Chinese version of mobbed up is. Alex here thinks he's using them to distract the Nortenos and the Black Dragons long enough to take over the marijuana trade in Sacramento using the stuff they're making in a bunch of grow houses in Elk Grove."
Ted stared at me. "And will the Chinese vampires be joined by legions of Korean werewolves who have been cooking meth in trailer parks in Truckee?
"No. The werewolves are refusing to get involved. Trust me, I've tried to talk them into helping. They'll have nothing to do with it. — Eileen Rendahl

You pulled one story from your head, and another story popped up in its place, like tissues from a box. — Eileen Pollack

Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go. — Eileen Caddy

... the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at them. So high above, speaking in gradual whispers about time, about their own flaming hearts and the endless cold that lies between ... — Eileen Wilks

Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study class for credit, and let us take that instead of sitting an extra hour in study hall, twiddling our so-called opposable thumbs. — Laura Moriarty

I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit. — Eileen Caddy

Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. — Eileen Myles

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse. — Eileen Wilks

The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have. — Eileen Collins

Popularity is a mathematical formula based on desirability criteria. High schools are a classic anthropological case study, and getting people to respond in the way you want is psychology. All science. It's just not the type of science that you're used to. — Eileen Cook

If you don't seize the opportunity, how do you know what will happen? Sometimes you have to take the chance — Eileen Cook

To split the very sea into ours and theirs. Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets — Eileen Granfors

I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show. — Eileen Munroe

Not knowing ... that could be as hard to handle as despair. — Eileen Wilks

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice. — Eileen Chang

Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding ... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that. — Eileen Wilks

As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. — Eileen Myles

What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman? — Eileen Wilks

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. — Eileen Myles

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

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

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