Sherman Alexie Quotes

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

Sherman Alexie

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Soul
  • Sky

• I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Remember
  • Find
  • Back

• I like that Barack got that job.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Job
  • Like
  • Got

• Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art

• Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Lies
  • Mystery
  • Awful

• The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Blow

• Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Beginning
  • Moon

• The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Age
  • Victory

• I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Life
  • Work

• You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • People
  • Understanding

• We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Important
  • Evil
  • Decision

• The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Life
  • Law
  • Everyday

• The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happy

• If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Cat

• Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • American
  • Peace
  • Dog

• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  

  Helen Keller
  • War
  • Mean
  • Hero

• The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and of me. Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning - we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions.

  

  Martin Buber
  • Life
  • World
  • Destiny

• When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Broken
  • Cartoon