Michael 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. 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

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

Michael Dorris

#4. I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"

John Lewis

#5. 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

#6. All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work ... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.

Martin Scorsese

#7. Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.

Lisa McMann

#8. Inexpensive is good.

Douglas Wilson

#9. Now there's a sight you don't see every day, huh? Two punked-out Goths throwing a Christmas party for sick children. (Doctor)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Nell Carter

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

Michael Dorris

#12. 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

#13. I like athletic men, but not like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he's gorgeous. A guy's got to be sexy, optimistic, like to have a good time.

Terry Farrell

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

Michael Dorris

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

Michael Dorris

#16. Sorry about that. I hope I didn't damage you down there. That would be a crime. I love bright red, by the way. Is that a thong? I can only see the front." Her

Laurann Dohner

#17. Now, undress for me and let me see what's mine.

Kresley Cole

#18. When the Greek goddess Hera married Zeus, the goddess Gaia created three golden apples and gave them to Hera as a wedding gift.

Denise Grover Swank

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

Michael Dorris

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

Michael Dorris

#21. This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

Hannah Gadsby

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

Michael Dorris

#23. 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

#24. In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.

Paul Auster

#25. 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