Sherman Alexie Quotes

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

Sherman Alexie

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• House
• Beautiful
• Vision
• Secret
• Shining

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• I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • House
  • Energy
  • Mom

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • World
  • Power
  • Today

• I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Up
  • World
  • Taken

• While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • World
  • Attention
  • Influence

• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • School
  • Family

• I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Mother
  • Creative

• In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Trying
  • Rap

• They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Up
  • World
  • Progress

• We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Time
  • House
  • Night

• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Money
  • Home
  • Small

• If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Present

• The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • House
  • Beautiful