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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit."
"If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States."
"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
"Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think."
"It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy."
"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
"SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us."
"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."
"They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly."
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
"I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at."
"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
"I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes."
"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself."
"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."
"I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular."
"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time."
"Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror."
"Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive."
"A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed."
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."
"More pathetic than the digital age is the people who love it. They buy right into the "newer is always better" ideology and they can't seem to grasp that the fun of VHS tapes, super 8 film, darkroom photography and vinyl records is far more worthwhile and human than the cold, high-tech atmosphere of everything being digitized. As the 21st century progresses, yeah, we'll have our Netflix and our cellular phones and our artificial intelligence and our implanted microchips - and future generations will have lost something valuable. Sadly, they won't even know what they've lost because we're taking it all away from them."
"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."
"The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself."
"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained."
"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."
"Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway."
"I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility."
"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
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