Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. — Sherman Alexie
– Anita Silvey
Related Quotes:
- Life is about finding yourself. Finding yourself is about finding your ultimate goal, ultimate passion. – Debasish Mridha
- If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
- Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
- Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
- The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. – Sherman Alexie
- I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
- Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
- There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107) – Sherman Alexie
- Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
- I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
- They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
- I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
- I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
- There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
- He was going to punish me now. He couldn’t beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words. – Sherman Alexie
- It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
- My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
- An Indian’s wealth  Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
- I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn’t actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false. – Sherman Alexie
- You’re always making up stuff from the past,- she said. -œAnd the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened. – Sherman Alexie
- I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
- They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. – Sherman Alexie
- A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
- If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
- Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
- Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. – Sherman Alexie
- Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
- I don’t mean to pry, but saving people is my calling. Yours vigilantly, The Masked Avenger – Craig Silvey
- Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
- It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- More than Gyms, we need centers where we can exercise how to be grateful for things we have & we got, which will add life to our life. – kundhan karunakar
- When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it. – TA Cline
- Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. – Chris Prentiss
- I like the idea of these bad boys having soft nougat centers. – JW Becton
- Innovation Games let customers engage other centers of their brain, resulting in richer, deeper, and more meaningful exchanges of information – Luke Hohmann
- Personal growth centers on two types of people, the ones we like and the ones that drive us crazy. – Auliq Ice
- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- Reading is all about losing and finding yourself. – Mahrukh
- When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana