Sherman Alexie Quotes

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

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• I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Growing
  • Feels
  • Week

• I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Career

• At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Want
  • Feels

• I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Free
  • Past
  • Serious

• Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Feels
  • Knows

• If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Feels
  • Right
  • Clothes

• Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Feels
  • Door

• Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants.

  

  Ofir Drori
  • Together
  • Elephants
  • Ivory

• Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Real
  • True
  • Feels

• It's just cool to be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Happy
  • Cool

• The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • She
  • Feels
  • Knows

• Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

  

  Sabrina Ward Harrison
  • True
  • Travel
  • Feels

• It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Great
  • Play
  • Rock

• I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Done
  • Feels
  • Made

• I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Nature
  • Feels
  • Ecstasy

• I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Done
  • Water
  • Feels

• Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Feels

• The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Feels
  • Sad

• I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

  

  Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
  • Kids
  • Feels

• I'm the kind of cat that can finish three songs in a day. Two or three songs in a day. If my voice is up to it and I feel up to it, I can finish two or three songs in a day.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Feels

• My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Written
  • Artistic
  • My Mother

• I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • People
  • Artist
  • Painter

• People—wondered why such miracles no longer happened. Augustine had a witty response: “I might, indeed, reply that miracles were necessary before the world believed, in order that it might believe. And whoever now-a-days demands to see prodigies that he may believe, is himself a great prodigy, because he does not believe, though the whole world does.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Believe
  • Response
  • Miracles

• I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Feels
  • Elephants