Sherman Alexie Quotes

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

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• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• Kids are disorganized.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • Disorganized

• I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Good
  • Cook
  • Salad

• Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Records
  • Big
  • Images

• The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Long
  • Way
  • Attention

• Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Parent

• I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Home
  • Stupid
  • Cows

• My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.

  

  B. Traven
  • Up
  • Men
  • Important

• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Painting
  • Relief

• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

  

  Kanye West
  • Long
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Confidence
  • Golf

• Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

  

  G. Frank Lawlis
  • Feeling
  • Fear
  • Worry

• The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Short

• But what if we are dealing with fools?

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Fools
  • Dealing

• Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Simple
  • Quiet
  • Surface

• Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Art
  • Business
  • Strong

• He toss my salad like his name Romaine

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Names
  • Bragging
  • Salad

• Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.

  

  George Fetherling
  • People
  • Impression
  • Satisfied

• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • May
  • Religious
  • Religion

• My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

  

  Sherman Alexie
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