Sherman Alexie Quotes

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Fear
  • Know
  • More

• With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Future
  • Decide
  • Aspiration

• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Sound

• From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Joy
  • Trees
  • Greets

• The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed of major labels. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • People
  • Speed
  • Labels

• You have to watch what you eat.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Watch
  • Eat

• We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Comedy
  • Violence

• Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Couple
  • Hopefully
  • Household

• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Deadline

• There's nothing worse than seeing someone hurt out on the football field.

  

  Archie Manning
  • Hurt
  • Seeing
  • Field

• Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Responsibility
  • Choices
  • Villains

• When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Moments
  • Form

• When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Individual
  • Common
  • Surprise

• We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Would

• Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Celebrate
  • Allusion