Maxine Sayings Quotes

Leeky Shortz says "Live life like your arse is on fire! ~ Maxine Mansfield

Life will do anything for a living. ~ Maxine Kumin

What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things? ~ Maxine Kumin

You can't eat straight A's. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Mothers who love their children take them along. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Having an achievement mindset is your competitive advantage ~ Maxine Phillips

Cherish your wilderness. ~ Maxine Kumin

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you. ~ Maxine Waters

Everything pays for growing tame. ~ Maxine Kumin

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down. ~ Maxine Cheshire

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do? ~ Maxine Kumin

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old ~ Maxine Kumin

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. ~ Maxine Kumin

Upon Good Earth, lay the body down,
open the mouth wide, let song rush through. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame. ~ Maxine Clair

And I had to get out of hating range. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

So many poems you go into and come up empty. ~ Maxine Kumin

To build is to dwell. ~ Maxine Kumin

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. Black space opened. She got to her feet to fight better ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim. ~ Maxine Waters

…I have changed/I am a dandelion puffball blur. My hair,/scribbles of white lines. My face. Lines/crisscross and zigzag my face./My eyes. I am looking into eyes/whose color has turned lighter, hazy brown./Wind and time are blowing me out." –Maxine Hong Kingston ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61) ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters ~ Maxine Paetro

I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Romance is everything to turn it into a cause for given is priceless ~ Maxine Wilson-Perry

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. ~ Maxine Greene

I am forever on the way ~ Maxine Greene

What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

You must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests. ~ Maxine

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. ~ Maxine Kumin

I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be. ~ Maxine

It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

God serves the choosy. They know what to want ... ~ Maxine Kumin

That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. ~ Maxine Kumin

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words. ~ Maxine Kumin

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going. ~ Maxine Kumin

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves. ~ Maxine Greene

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them. ~ Maxine Kumin

If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile. ~ Maxine Powell

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion. ~ Maxine Waters

Gods you avoid won't hurt you. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible. ~ Maxine

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when

the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self

lay lightly down, and slept. ~ Maxine Kumin

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.' ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color. ~ Maxine Powell

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita ~ Maxine

"To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again. ~ Maxine Swann

Children, everybody, here's what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world. ~ Maxine Greene

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal. ~ Maxine Powell

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious. ~ Maxine Greene

Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying. ~ Maxine Kumin

My job is my own only land. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

IMAGINE! See it, feel it, believe it!
You can do anything, if you truly believe in yourself."
Ronaldo's Grandad
Former captain of the North Pole Flying Team, and very wise reindeer. ~ Maxine Sylvester

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars. ~ Maxine Waters

The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.) ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women - to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Riot is the voice of the unheard. ~ Maxine Waters

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture ... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it. ~ Maxine Kumin

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. ~ Maxine Kumin

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win. ~ Maxine Waters

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing ... uh, um ... Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. ~ Maxine Waters

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses - over 170 million jobs that could be lost, ~ Maxine Waters

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings. ~ Maxine Kumin

My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. ~ Maxine Kumin

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive ... I want education to empower people to see possibility. ~ Maxine

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation? ~ Jonah Goldberg

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not ... you want to throw up. ~ Maxine

My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories. ~ Maxine Waters

The difference between mad people and sane people ... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed. ~ Maxine

The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that ... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do. ~ Maxine Waters

I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view. ~ Maxine Kumin

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs. ~ Maxine Waters

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let's get it on.' ~ Maxine

If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell. ~ Maxine Kumin

...sayings only become clichés because they're true. ~ MC Domovitch