Sherman Alexie Quotes

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

Sherman Alexie

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Reasons

• 'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Situation

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Try

• I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • God
  • Believe
  • Ethics

• I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Doctors
  • Treatment
  • Medium

• I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Book

• I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Powerful

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Lies
  • Mystery
  • Awful

• All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Good
  • Passion

• A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Good

• You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Movie

• When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Revolution

• The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Knows
  • Filled