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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything."
"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."
"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes."
"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."
"Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."
"I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse."
"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."
"Money is a poor man's credit card."
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
"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."
"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
"To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"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."
"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely."
"We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage."
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"
"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
"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."
"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."
"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
"I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character."
"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
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