Sherman Alexie Quotes

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

Sherman Alexie

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Future
  • Humanity

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
  • Sport
  • Badminton

• I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Bible

• In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Hope
  • Moments
  • Rebirth

• Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Software
  • Page

• Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Friends
  • Forever
  • Texas

• I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Childhood

• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Poetry

• Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • World
  • Long
  • Space

• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Mind
  • True

• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Different
  • Game
  • Past

• Puns are the highest form of literature.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Literature

• Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Nature

• Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Mind
  • Patterns

• If one adds anything small or great to the queen of virtues, piety, or on the other hand takes something from it, in either case he will change and transform its nature. Addition will beget superstition and subtraction will beget impiety.

  

  Philo
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Small

• One must create the ability in his staff to generate clear, forceful arguments for opposing viewpoints as well as for their own. Open discussions and disagreements must be encouraged, so that all sides of an issue are fully explored.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover

• Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Mind
  • Politeness