Obomsawin Alanis Quotes

#1. There was one year that I was on the road.

Eydie Gorme

#2. Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#3. Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Gloria Steinem

#4. patch of dandelions by the track. I only see the image for a moment,

Suzanne Collins

#5. Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Swami Vivekananda

#6. You sure you don't want to eat the tin foil, too?

Kandi Steiner

#7. 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

#8. I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley

#9. The evening was cold and tempestuous, the rain poured in torrents, and the distant thunders rolled with tremendous noise round the adjacent mountains, whilst the pale lightning added horrors to the scene.

Eliza Parsons

#10. There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

Richard Rogers

#11. Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.

Dennis Franz

#12. We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open.

Troy Duffy

#13. They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

Stephen King

#14. Action should be taken before a thing has made its appearance; order should be secured before disorder has begun.

Lao-Tzu

#15. 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

#16. Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

John Dryden

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

Alanis Obomsawin