Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Tori Amos

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

Valerie June

I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

Salman Rushdie

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

Will Rogers

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Washington Irving

Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

William Least Heat-Moon

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

Denise Reed

I actually thought he was giving away stuff. There was a lot of people here. It's good he accommodated people the way he did, and he did it with a smile.

Paul Moran

He leads by example. He's not a guy that will be yelling and giving orders. He is now showing how to lead with his play on the court. He's starting to play some big-time basketball.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

James Awad

Greenspan is giving a speech Monday night to some overseas bankers, then Thursday he will speak to Congress. Investors will be looking to him to clarify.

Jalen Rose

Guys were giving up good shots to get great shots.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

Bobby Pierce

He's a guy that knows the strike zone well. We'll be giving him more opportunities.

Tom Cooper

He's already been to the penitentiary. He knows what it's like. He wants to go back, ... You would be giving him what he wants.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.