Top 100 Quotes About Sherman

#1. War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.

William T. Sherman

#2. I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Allan Sherman

#3. The only good Indian is a dead Indian

William Tecumseh Sherman

#4. I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

Bobby Sherman

#5. How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt?

Sherman Alexie

#6. I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

Delia Sherman

#7. There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Sherman Alexie

#8. It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

#9. War is at its best barbarism.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#10. You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

Sherman Alexie

#11. But now I want it to pour. I want it to storm. I want to be clean.

Sherman Alexie

#12. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?

Sherman Alexie

#13. If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.

Sherman Alexie

#14. The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I've lost control of it.

Cindy Sherman

#15. I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told.

Sherman Alexie

#16. It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway.

Richard M. Sherman

#17. He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners.

Sherman Alexie

#18. I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.

Richard Sherman

#19. Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

Roger Sherman

#20. My favorite time is now, like tonight, under a full moon. When a thousand crystals are sparkling at us. It's almost magical, isn't it?

Dominique Eastwick

#21. I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.

Cindy Sherman

#22. 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

#23. Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.

Sherman Alexie

#24. The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

Sherman Alexie

#25. 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

#26. It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

John Sherman

#27. I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

Sherman Alexie

#28. And in the evening, everywhere
Along the roadside, up and down,
I see the golden torches flare
Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

Frank Dempster Sherman

#29. The goal has always been to stay in Seattle and continue to play for the Seahawks.

Richard Sherman

#30. magical realism? Aren't we all making shit up,

Sherman Alexie

#31. 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

#32. He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

Sherman Alexie

#33. Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

Bobby Sherman

#34. I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

Richard Sherman

#35. She was so white his reservation eyes suffered.

Sherman Alexie

#36. Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

John Sherman Cooper

#37. World. Put down your fucking guns and pick up your kids.

Sherman Alexie

#38. My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks.

Sherman Alexie

#39. People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.

Cindy Sherman

#40. 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

#41. I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

Cindy Sherman

#42. Wagons to move the camp of a regiment from one place to another, and some of the camps had bakeries and cooking establishments that would have done credit to Delmonico.

William T. Sherman

#43. I wasn't just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo.

Sherman Alexie

#44. I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that ... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'

Cindy Sherman

#45. Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. we played until dark. we played until the streetlights lit up court. we played until the bats swooped down at our heads. we played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky.
we didn't keep score.

Sherman Alexie

#46. Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#47. I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#48. More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.

Sherman Alexie

#49. Junior talks about it - relating to dozens if not hundreds of tribes. Even as the world tries to define you, narrow the definition of you, don't do it to yourself. True

Sherman Alexie

#50. In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

Allan Sherman

#51. If you've got talent, stick with it ... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

Bobby Sherman

#52. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

Sherman Alexie

#53. I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

Sherman Alexie

#54. It is not too much to say that the blacks in Georgia and the Carolinas made Sherman's march possible. Their help meant that Sherman's forces would not be traveling through hostile territory without supply lines. Rather, the soldiers were more like a huge guerilla force in friendly territory.

James W. Loewen

#55. I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#56. In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

Sherman Alexie

#57. Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

Sherman Alexie

#58. The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.

Richard Sherman

#59. Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

Sherman Alexie

#60. I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

John Sherman Cooper

#61. The ordinary can be like medicine.

Sherman Alexie

#62. We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

Sherman Alexie

#63. I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

Delia Sherman

#64. With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#65. Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.

Delia Sherman

#66. And anger is never added to anger. It multiplies.

Sherman Alexie

#67. My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

Sherman Alexie

#68. Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

Sherman Alexie

#69. The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

Sherman Alexie

#70. I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Richard Sherman

#71. Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

Chuck Close

#72. I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.

Mike Sherman

#73. What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything?

Sherman Alexie

#74. Easier by far, thought Ambassador Spock, to get forgiveness than permission. Humans might have invented that saying, but its applications were universal. The

Josepha Sherman

#75. Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book.

Russell Delman

#76. I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you are planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show, no hands went up.

Brad Sherman

#77. The humble little school library ... was a ramp to everything
in the world and beyond, everything that could be dreamed and
imagined, everything that could be known, everything that could be hoped.

Lee Sherman

#78. My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Sherman Alexie

#79. Finishing things take power, but it makes you more powerful.

Sherman Toppin

#80. He didn't do much of anything except ride that bike and listen to music.

Sherman Alexie

#81. I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#82. First, you must have entrepreneurs who fully grasp their customers. They understand their product so well because they themselves are customers. The second thing is having an awesome value proposition.

Craig Sherman

#83. There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

Richard Sherman

#84. In the final analysis luck is more important than skill. But any Marine who relies on luck to accomplish his mission is a dead Marine.

David Sherman

#85. I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.

John Sherman Cooper

#86. Sometimes we meet a character and we fall so hopelessly in love with him or her that we want to be that character, no matter how tough they have it, no matter how they might mess things up.

Sherman Alexie

#87. Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

Sherman Alexie

#88. I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#89. But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?

Sherman Alexie

#90. Walked back into the house to feed myself and my illusions.

Sherman Alexie

#91. He was my best friend and I needed him.

Sherman Alexie

#92. Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#93. We only know how to lose and be lost.

Sherman Alexie

#94. She wanted to find a way to love them in death, because she forgot how to love them in life.

Sherman Alexie

#95. Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Sherman Alexie

#96. I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.

John Sherman Cooper

#97. I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive.

Sherman Alexie

#98. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.

Sherman Alexie

#99. My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Sherman Alexie

#100. I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.

Sherman Hemsley

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