John Ralston Saul Quotes
As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
-
I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
-
Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
-
All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
-
You must always do what you feel is right.
-
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
-
In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
-
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
-
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
-
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
-
I have no privacy anymore.
-
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
-
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
-
Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
-
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
-
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
-
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
-
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
-
Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.
-
More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.
-
I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
-
When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.
-
It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.
-
As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.
