Sherman Alexie Quotes

I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

Sherman Alexie

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• Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Cooking
  • Sauce
  • Tricky

• My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Year

• Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding
  • Accepting

• It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

  

  Mac Barnett
  • Children
  • Literature

• Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Today

• Where there is no love there is no understanding.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understanding
  • No Love

• I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Broken
  • Shape
  • I Hope

• To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hope
  • Wish

• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Impression
  • False
  • Vulgar

• The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

  

  Bob Blumer
  • Food
  • Wonder
  • Convinced

• There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence

  

  Norman Ornstein
  • Culture
  • Corruption
  • Incompetence

• What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

  

  Adam Garfinkle
  • Past
  • Present
  • Interests

• I see the light in your smile.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Light
  • Smile
  • I See

• Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Fighting
  • Learn
  • Paradox

• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • People
  • Children
  • Moving

• I know that’s probably not always true, but I operate on the principle that if it sounds great when you’re just playing it on the piano or guitar and singing it, then making it into a stylistic statement is just not a problem. It’s just going to be a matter of time, turning the crank and getting an arrangement out of the song.

  

  Dan Wilson
  • Song
  • Problem
  • Singing

• I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Phones
  • Insulting
  • Accusing