Sherman Alexie Quotes
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.Sherman Alexie
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
Naomi Watts -
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
Walter Cronkite -
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I like that Barack got that job.
Hannibal Buress -
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
Walter Scott -
Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
Mary Hunter Austin -
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
Alva Myrdal -
I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
Dawn Steel -
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
Claire Tomalin -
We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Demian Bichir
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.
Karamo Brown -
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
Jeff Foxworthy -
I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.
Loni Love -
A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactly what you are.
BJ the Chicago Kid -
I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.
Jennifer Coolidge
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If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
Darrell Royal -
Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no international trade, but it will be nothing like the conveyer belt from China to Wal-Mart that we've known the last few decades. And the prospects for conflict are very, very high.
James Howard Kunstler -
The difference between "trained OK" and "trained perfectly" doesn't really matter all that much to me. I once did a film with Lassie. When that dog got excited he jumped all over Rudd Weatherwax [Lassie's trainer]. Now that's the smartest dog in the world. If the world's best-trained dog can jump around to show he's happy then my dogs should be allowed to do the same. James Stewart
James Stewart -
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
Sherman Alexie