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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue very blue almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on."
"When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised."
"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
"The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya."
"My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean."
"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."
"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."
"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
"Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for blood), which builds up inside us and must periodically be discharged. Nothing could be further from a contemporary scientific understanding of the psychology of violence. Aggression is not a single motive, let alone a mounting urge. It is the output of several psychological systems that differ in their environmental triggers, their internal logic, their neurobiological basis, and their social distribution."
"Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."
"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
"You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better."
"I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on."
"Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it."
"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."
"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."
"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before."
"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things."
"I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money."
"I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are."
"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do."
"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
"It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world."
"People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world."
"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."
"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent."
"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."
"I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here."
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