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“Comparing the world's balance sheet to a seesaw, it seems like the 'war' side has been hogging the playground while 'peace' is stuck in detention.”

War Peace Detention Seesaw

Author:Dipti

“I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.”

Firsts Shows Felt Roles Audience Successful Heard Models Theater Accomplishment Role Models Applause Sense Of Accomplishment Lancaster Seesaw

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!”

Eye Night Wicked Sunday Sunday Night Seesaw

Author:Dylan Thomas

“The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.”

Firsts Partners Dominant Seesaw

Author:Joyce Brothers

“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”

“In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.”

Use Able Comedy Singing Dancing Musical Seesaw

Author:Michele Lee

“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.”

Writing Years Book Different Girl Three Names Half Taken Four Months Eight Length Three Years Four Years Publishers Publish Another Year Seesaw

Author:Linda Sue Park

“History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.”

Ifs Way Action Sides Regimes Seesaw

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.”

Moving Lines Crystals Corrections Never Ending Congas Seesaw Bold Moves

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.”

Ifs Littles Book Play Kids Hurt Air Brother Mercy Down And Excitement Rising Leap Crash Little Kid Older Brother Up In The Air Rising Up Seesaw

Author:Anne Lamott

“For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”

World Humans Would Be Eye Science Poetry Space Wonder Vision History Saws Future Graduation My Future Grappling Human Eyes Visions Of The Future Seesaw Future Science

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”

Lying Sex Easy Saws Sea Let Me Riding Thighs Shipwreck Seesaw

Book:Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

Source: Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

“Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!”

Firsts Hard Pain Balance Flow Remains Centre Seesaw

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw”

Author:Nas

“If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that!”

Ifs Trying Littles Humor Funny Fire Dog Police Tunnels Seesaw

Author:Milton Jones

“Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.”

Should Kind Color Racism Function Victim Laundry Seesaw

Author:Albert Memmi