Louise Erdrich Quotes

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

Louise Erdrich

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Party
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Information

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Risk

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Save
  • Billions
  • Metro

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Funny

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Power
  • Bad

• Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • Growing

• 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

  

  Mary Daly
  • God
  • Men
  • Evil

• You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Gold

• We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Reading

• Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Power
  • Birth
  • Travels