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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
"All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly."
"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe."
"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body."
"I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way."
"I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music."
"The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November."
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."
"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."
"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
"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."
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."
"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world."
"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."
"Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs."
"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
"It may be those who do most, dream most."
"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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