Sherman Alexie Quotes

I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.

Sherman Alexie

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• A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • World
  • Without
  • Recognize

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Look
  • New York
  • Living

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Yield

• I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Cool

• When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Relationships

• I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Practice

• I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Look

• When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • City
  • Jesus

• Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lost

• You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • True
  • Science

• The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • World
  • Fatherhood

• I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

  

  Bill Forsyth

• It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • People
  • Nature
  • Reading

• You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Money

• It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

  

  David Cone
  • Baseball
  • February

• Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

  

  Neil LaBute
  • People
  • Trust

• I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Me
  • Latin

• Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Time
  • Night
  • Fire

• Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Water
  • Mean

• I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.

  

  Sherman Alexie