Quotes About The Winnipeg General Strike

#1. We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

Philip Pullman

#2. Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

James Balog

#3. We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Alex Campbell

#4. The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.

Mike Scully

#5. We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away.

Patti Smith

#6. To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

James Buchan

#7. I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

Akhil Sharma

#8. I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song.

Lady Saw

#9. If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.

Paula Abdul