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

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

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Soul
  • Sky

• 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

• 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

• I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Up
  • Question

• Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Life
  • Famous

• I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.

  

  Loni Love
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactly what you are.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Connection

• I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Hate

• If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

  

  Darrell Royal

• Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Why
  • Dog

• It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Action

• Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • World
  • Lost
  • Lying

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

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Broken
  • Cartoon