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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive."
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
"Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other."
"I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent."
"No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly."
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
"We're losing society to apathy, to digital technology, the people who care about nobody else but themselves. They share every little detail of their stupid lives online as if the world even gives a damn— digital technology is getting smarter and society is getting dumber," Mandy whispered in a voice filled with disbelief. "Society is— it's slipping away."
"There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications."
"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."
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
"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."
"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
"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."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
"I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next."
"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."
"There are thousands of girls out there who could be doing my job."
"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."
"About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load."
"I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here."
"I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character."
"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
"I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes."
"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."
"Money is a poor man's credit card."
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
"To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."
"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope."
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