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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
"I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it."
"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."
"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
"Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher."
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
"My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian."
"I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse."
"A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called."
"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."
"I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed."
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."
"No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly."
"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever."
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
"To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself-his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is composed of women-a woman-who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward."
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."
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