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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."
"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly."
"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
"There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate."
"I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent."
"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive."
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
"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."
"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
"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."
"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
"Money is a poor man's credit card."
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope."
"There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record."
"That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
"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."
"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
"And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?"
"I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit."
"There are thousands of girls out there who could be doing my job."
"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should."
"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."
"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
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