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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
"I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah."
"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
"We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out."
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
"Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video."
"LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others."
"I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa."
"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends."
"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
"I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes."
"Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company."
"It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game."
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
"I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits."
"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."
"I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park."
"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
"Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room."
"I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it."
"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."
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
"In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true."
"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope."
"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"
"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."
"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."
"I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job."
"Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble."
"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."
"What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes."
"As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence."
"We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that."
"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
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