Sherman Kennon Quotes

I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light. ~ Sherman Kennon

So I wonder: Will a person who has drowned,
Or almost drowned, always feel
Like they're drowning,
Even after they've been saved? ~ Sherman Alexie

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor". ~ Sherman Alexie

She'd teach him nineteen different ways to spell matriarchy. ~ Sherman Alexie

I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it. ~ Cindy Sherman

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature. ~ Sherman Alexie

Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap. ~ Sherman Alexie

I pretended I belonged. ~ Sherman Alexie

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody to read it, does it make a sound? ~ Sherman Alexie

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else. ~ Brad Sherman

Most of us are worrying about the future so much that we can't enjoy the present. ~ Harold Sherman

You can do it."
"I can do it."
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. ~ Sherman Alexie

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in. ~ Sherman Alexie

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football. ~ Richard Sherman

Shit, its 3 in the morning and ain't shit open at This time of night but legs. ~ Bengy Sherman

Taste failure in the tap water, ~ Sherman Alexie

When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being. ~ Russell Sherman

And then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two
depending on your definition of what I did to Custer ... ~ Sherman Alexie

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again. ~ Bobby Sherman

People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting ... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying. ~ Cindy Sherman

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper. ~ Allan Sherman

She knew Indians were obsessed with authenticity. Colonized, genocided, exiled, Indians formed their identities by questioning the identities of other Indians. Self-hating, ~ Sherman Alexie

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother. ~ Allan Sherman

We only know how to lose and be lost. ~ Sherman Alexie

At what point do we just re-create the people who have disappeared from our lives? ~ Sherman Alexie

My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have. ~ Richard Sherman

The Staging

In the weeks after my mother's death, I sleep
Four or five hours a night, often interrupted
By dreams, and take two or three naps a day.

It seems like enough. I can survive if I keep
This sleep schedule as it has been constructed
For me. But if it seems my reflexes are delayed,

Or if I sway when I walk, or weep or do not weep,
Please don't worry. I'm not under destruction.
My grief has cast me in a lethargic cabaret.

So pay the cover charge and take your seat.
This mourning has become a relentless production
And I've got seventy-eight roles to play. ~ Sherman Alexie

So Lightning says to Mud,
"What would happen if I struck your blood?"
And Mud says, "Brother,
It would hurt,
And make me the mother
Of every living thing.
But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt
Until you burn me a ring. ~ Sherman Alexie

Today television news is watched more often-than people read newspapers-than people read or gather any form of communication. The memo explained why: 'People are lazy. With television you just sit-watch-listen. The thinking is done for you. ~ Gabriel Sherman

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe. ~ Sherman Alexie

I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it. ~ Amy Sherman-Palladino

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are. ~ Cindy Sherman

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

Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. ~ Sherman Edwards

Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been? ~ Sherman Alexie