Sianna Sherman Quotes

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be. ~ Sherman Alexie

I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV! ~ Sherman Alexie

Believing in one's own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder. ~ Cindy Sherman

Apron," Chad said, sounding a little nervous. "I've been wondering. Do you think you and me would have been friends, if, you know, we were in seventh grade together?"

I thought about it for a second. I thought about Rennie and Jenny Pratt making fun of Chad, his swishy way of walking down the halls, and Johnny Berman and Sherman Howl writing faggot on the top of his desk and picking him last for dodge ball. And I thought about how, if I ignored them all and decided to be friends with Chad anyway, he would have been my only one.

"Yes," I nodded. "We'd be friends."

"Yup," Chad said smiling as far as his cracked lips would let him. "That's what I think, too. ~ Jennifer Gooch Hummer

[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do. ~ Douglas Crimp

Sherman Alexie: Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. ~ Anita Silvey

Berta, like so many Great Russians, thought of Kiev and the surrounding provinces as a Russian outpost: provincial, backward, but Russified to some extent. She had a respect for both the Polish and German influences there, but agreed with the authorities that the Ukrainian culture and language had little to offer. It was banned in the schools and in the government institutions and was thought to be the purlieu of reprobates, lazy slum dwellers, and rustics. Berta was born in Little Russia, a small fact that she never bothered to share with anyone of consequence. She was a Great Russian, as anyone could see by her fierce accomplishments, tasteful dress, and overall refinement. ~ Susan Sherman

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. ~ Sherman Alexie

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

Good art is not universal. Bruce Willis is universal. ~ Sherman Alexie

Who cares if a man wants to marry another man? All i want to know is who's going to ick up all the dirty socks? ~ Sherman Alexie

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. ~ Bobby Sherman

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us. ~ Roger Sherman

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

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman

I don't need to hear it, Sherman. I've already run every little bit of your possible dialogue in my head while I was masturbating. ~ Mira Grant

Gordy," I said. "I need to talk to you."
"I don't have time," he said. "Mr. Orcutt and I have to debug some PCs. Don't you hate PCs? They are sickly and fragile and vulnerable to viruses. PCs are like French people living during the bubonic plague."
Wow, and people thought I was a freak.
"I much prefer Macs, don't you?" he asked. "They're so poetic. ~ Sherman Alexie

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key. ~ Russell Sherman

She kissed him like he was a warrior; she kissed him like she was a warrior. ~ Sherman Alexie

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ~ Sherman Alexie

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time. ~ Bobby Sherman

He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed and swallowed the last pieces of his father's life. He felt like he was building a museum of pain, a freak show, where he was the only visitor viewing the only mutant screaming the only prayer he knew: Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back Daddy ... ~ Sherman Alexie

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day. ~ Bobby Sherman

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol. ~ Allan Sherman

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded? ~ Sherman Alexie

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. ~ Sherman Alexie

She never opened up a canyon in her soul and silently disappeared into the dark recesses. ~ Sherman Alexie

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other. ~ Sherman Alexie

If I had a baseball bat and bulldozer, maybe I could stop him. But without real weapons, without a pistol, a man-eating lion, and a vial of bubonic plague, I had zero change of competing against him. ~ 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

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life. ~ John Sherman

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze. ~ Sherman Alexie