In Re Gault Quotes

#1. If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William Campbell Gault

#2. I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#3. The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#5. We don't work for each other, We work with each other.

Stanley Gault

#6. You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

Stanley Gault

#7. Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are.
- John Gault

Ayn Rand

#8. As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.

Irvine Welsh

#9. I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#10. I just live in the moment. Or try to.

Russell Tovey

#11. If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

William Campbell Gault

#12. I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

Beatrice Sparks

#13. There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#15. If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#16. Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

Mario Andretti

#17. The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#18. Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

John Arbuthnot