Sherman Alexie Quotes

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

Sherman Alexie

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• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Sister
  • Fame
  • Group

• The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Workout
  • Travelling

• In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Reality
  • Order
  • Lives

• When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Men
  • Why
  • Soul

• Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

  

  Lily King
  • Relationship
  • Illusion
  • Disappoint

• Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Alcohol
  • Illusion
  • Sanity

• As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Able
  • Illusion
  • Experts

• If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Freedom
  • Humans
  • Illusion

• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Thinking
  • Illusion
  • Technological

• I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Desire
  • Purpose
  • Tree

• Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fighting
  • Illusion
  • Relaxation

• The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Tragedy
  • Greatest

• I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Death
  • Agony

• If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

  

  Confucius
  • Teachers
  • Correct
  • Travelling

• A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• We're now at that point where the graphics are good enough to preserve the illusion and make you feel more immersed in the environment.

  

  J Allard
  • Environment
  • Illusion
  • Preserve

• That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • World
  • Blessed
  • Mood

• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Wisdom
  • Child
  • Illusion

• True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Laws of Nature
  • True Works

• Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Child
  • Race
  • Passionate

• All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Memories
  • Students
  • Discovery

• We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Illusion
  • Heavy
  • Travelling