Sherman Alexie Quotes

I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.

Sherman Alexie

• Book
• Sleep
• Sometimes
• Alive
• Worst

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• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
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• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Past
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• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
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  • Want

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

  

  E. L. James
  • Friends
  • Television
  • Finish

• I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Say

• I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Week

• Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Small
  • Hate

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

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• Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Nature

• My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.

  

  Bernice King
  • Mother
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  • Wife

• I faded away for a while out of necessity.

  

  Phoebe Snow

• I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Good
  • Night

• An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Time
  • Important
  • Future

• Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Important
  • Book
  • Kids

• It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Losers must have leave to speak.

  

  Colley Cibber

• I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Book
  • Sleep
  • Sometimes