Sherman Alexie Quotes

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.

Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.

There is no secret, you try and never stop trying. If you have to sleep all day, and get up the next day, you keep trying. If you have to take 3 years away, do it and then come back. But it's all about trying. Not everything will work, but some things will, and you have to try.

Much rain wears the marble.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it. It is also true about weather that you can’t control it; you can’t say if I wish hard enough it won’t rain. It is equally true that if the weather is bad one day it will get better and what I had to learn was to treat my moods like the weather.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.