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

• 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

• It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

  

  James Bay
  • Silly

• I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

  

  Alona Tal
  • Home
  • Career

• Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• Using the HTTP protocol, computer scientists around the world began making the Internet easier to navigate by inventing point-and-click browsers. One browser in particular, called Mosaic, created in 1993 at the University of Illinois, would help popularize the Web, and therefore the Net, as no software tool had yet done.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • World
  • Done
  • Help

• When we talked about a wall, right, to try to keep out this threat. The problem is that these are ideas. And they are filtering throughout the world. And it was naïve, and I think ultimately, the reason why we, as Muslims, stood on Friday and went to the mosque and took the risks on our own lives, is because we've had enough. I think the world has had enough.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • World
  • Problem
  • Ideas

• Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • World
  • Young
  • Vote

• No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Argument
  • Taste
  • Disturbing

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

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Broken
  • Cartoon