Dorris Quotes

#1. [On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

Louise Erdrich

#2. I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

John Astin

#3. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

Michael Dorris

#4. We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

Michael Dorris

#5. Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

Michael Dorris

#6. Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance ... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

Michael Dorris

#7. The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

Garet Garrett

#8. To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

Michael Dorris

#9. She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

Michael Dorris

#10. Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

Michael Dorris

#11. I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

Action Bronson

#12. We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

John Barrasso

#13. There's a general assumption now that every man in a position of power is or will soon be corrupt and oppressive. Yet the Greeks understood and praised a positive male energy that has accepted authority.

Robert Bly

#14. I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

Michael Dorris

#15. Fear is a memory of better times. Fear is a dream.

Michael Dorris

#16. Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#17. These boots were made for dancing"(260)

Michael Dorris

#18. Holding that memory snugly against my heart, I realized that I wasn't sad anymore. I was determined. I had to get through this- whatever it took- for Quin.

Ellery A. Kane

#19. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.

Michael Dorris

#20. At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

Michael Dorris

#21. I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.

Art Alexakis

#22. Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.

Madonna Ciccone