Sherman Alexie Quotes

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Decisions

• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
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• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Cancer

• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Questions

• Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Clothes

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Job
  • Think

• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • You
  • Doing

• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Like
  • Private Life

• I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Perfection

• The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Done
  • Single

• And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

  

  Epictetus
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Deprived

• I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Character
  • Book

• The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Life
  • Worst