Louise Erdrich Quotes
You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
-
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
-
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
-
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
-
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
-
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
-
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
-
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
-
If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
-
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
-
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
-
I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
-
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
-
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
-
Cricket was my reason for living.
-
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
-
I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
-
In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
-
Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
-
'Good Morning America' is television to a fare-thee-well.
-
You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
