Alanis Obomsawin Quotes

#1. You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

George Washington Carver

#2. When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

Tony Hatch

#3. Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.

Alanis Obomsawin

#4. To overcome the fear of failure, do what makes you fearful.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

Alanis Obomsawin

#7. The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

James Gleick

#8. And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

Paul Auster

#9. Some wounds won't heal until they're seen through a lover's eyes.

Jenna Hilary Sinclair

#10. If a hundred people were shipwrecked on an island, what would it even mean to say that everyone there has a "right" to food, or that everyone has a "right" to health care, or the "right" to a job, or the "right" to a "living wage"?

Larken Rose

#11. Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

Alanis Obomsawin

#12. If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Alyson Noel

#13. You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.

Leonard Susskind

#14. Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. "That's not standard procedure," he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over the stray's body to open the back passenger-side door.
"Yeah, well, I'm not your standard enforcer.

Rachel Vincent

#15. If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

Bram Stoker

#16. Far from me be the gift of Bacchus
pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

Homer

#17. I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

Dick Cheney

#18. I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had ... maybe I could even quit renting.

P. J. O'Rourke