Max Eastman Quotes

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Max Eastman

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• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hope
  • Never
  • Animals

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Live
  • Family
  • Parents

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • You
  • Rich
  • Chocolate

• You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Perfect
  • Yourself
  • Guilty

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Food
  • Water

• Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Love
  • Want
  • Writer

• In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of a single chemotherapy, multiple chemotherapy, and no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.'

  

  Barry Lynes
  • Treatment
  • Chemotherapy
  • Cancer Patients

• If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Book
  • Pain
  • Betrayal

• Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Life
  • Character
  • Destiny

• The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

  

  William Shenstone
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Writing
  • Responsibility
  • Deep

• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  

  Max Eastman
  • Pain