Lameisha Sherman Quotes

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart. ~ Cindy Sherman

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. ~ Sherman Alexie

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Being physical is something I pride myself on. ~ Richard Sherman

And it's not the good stuff that I recall. No. It's the most traumatic shit that plays in the 3D IMAX Theater of My Mind. ~ Sherman Alexie

I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter. ~ Edan Lepucki

I was emotionally erect. ~ Sherman Alexie

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they're not necessarily evil, unless you let them be. ~ Sherman Alexie

They're not starving to death, but they look hollow-eyed and barren, like they've been fed just enough food but never enough happiness. ~ Sherman Alexie

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach. ~ Cary Sherman

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant. ~ Sherman Alexie

When you are in the minority, talk; when you are in the majority, vote. ~ Roger Sherman

If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes. ~ Sherman Alexie

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation. ~ John Sherman Cooper

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off." ~ Richard Sherman

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power. ~ Sherman Alexie

Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe after a while, a better reason will pop into your head. ~ William T. Sherman

I mean, I don't think you're supposed to have sex with people you don't love. I know, I know, I know. People do it all the time. But I really think you're supposed to be a little bit in love with them. At least a tiny bit. ~ Sherman Alexie

For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else. ~ Sherman Alexie

Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting. ~ Allan Sherman

Hold the fort! I am coming! ~ William Tecumseh Sherman

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. ~ Sherman Alexie

The ordinary can be like medicine. ~ Sherman Alexie

Here's the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more. ~ Sherman Alexie

Making people laugh was automatic. ~ Sherman Hemsley

Sharing dark skin doesn't necessarily make two men brothers ~ Sherman Alexie

If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own. ~ Sherman Alexie

If it's fiction, then it better be true. ~ Sherman Alexie

Doesn't an Indian tribe finally surrender to colonization by becoming as capitalistic as our conquerors? Isn't indigenous economic sovereignty one of the sneakiest damn oxymorons of all time? ~ Sherman Alexie

How self-centered, how arrogant ... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches ... I was a commodity cheese-atarian. ~ Sherman Alexie

...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..."
~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams)
in Alexie's "Smoke Signals ~ Sherman Alexie

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood. ~ Sherman Hemsley

How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt? ~ Sherman Alexie

I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend! ~ Amy Sherman-Palladino

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television. ~ Sutton Foster