Maxine famous quotes

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
-- Maxine

#Size #Buckets #Trouble

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

#Imagination #People #Empowering

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.
-- Maxine

#Adventure #Feet #Envy

When you go to make a purchase, take a look at the product and ask yourself: 'am I being cheated?' If a product from a 'fast fashion' chain is falling apart before you've even bought it, it's not a deal. It's the fast-fashion company trying to get you to buy something that is quick on trend but slow on quality.
-- Maxine

#Fashion #Fall #Trying

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

#Love Is #Want #Roller Coaster

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

#Salt #Margarita #Grain

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

#Dust #Long #Guy

The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.
-- Maxine

#Nice #Keys #Lawns

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

#Mirrors #Giving #Incentives

To look at possibility is to be free.
-- Maxine

#Looks #Possibility

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

#Games #Guests #My Favorite

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

#Teaching #Secret #Good Teaching

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.
-- Maxine

#Thinking #Imagination #Capacity

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

#Good Night #Party #Sleep

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

#Book #Biblical #People

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.
-- Maxine

#Weekend #Men #Giving