Sherman Alexie Quotes

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

Sherman Alexie

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• I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.

  

  Bar Paly
  • People
  • Strong
  • Me

• Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Time
  • Think
  • Picture

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  

  P. D. James
  • Good
  • Friends
  • English

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • English
  • Years
  • Speak

• I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • World
  • Think
  • Fat

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Treasure

• Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Good
  • God
  • History

• Cannot keep you out my brain

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Brain

• 'The law is an expression of God's holy will and as such must be honored and loved,' said the preacher piously. 'Rubbish,' said the Master. 'The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God
  • Law
  • Evil

• L'accent est l'âme du discours.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Pretty
  • Positive

• I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Why

• The maxims of men reveal their characters.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Men

• If you come in this league, and you're comfortable with being a backup, something's wrong.

  

  Brock Osweiler

• People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Soul

• Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Reflection