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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now."
"Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services."
"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature."
"If you dread ending up in the bunker, practice these tricky out-of-the-sand shots until you master them. Think of it as insurance-we all have learned that, once you know you can make that shot easily, you will seldom need to!"
"Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks."
"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
"I was so angry to realize I'm a Quebecois, with no past, no history, just two cans of maple syrup."
"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold."
"My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all."
"Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came."
"The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope."
"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution."
"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
"Behavioral science is not for sissies."
"People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne."
"I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now."
"Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad."
"There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off."
"The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd."
"A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?"
"Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty."
"He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it."
"How are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words..."
"The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat."
"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
"I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration."
"We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction."
"I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy."
"Reason is overrated. Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are superior to triangulations of overeducated policy wonks, like the best and brightest and that dragged us into the quagmire of Vietnam. And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction? In this way of thinking, it's character and conscience, not cold-hearted calculation, that will save us. Besides, a human being is not a brain on a stick. My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led by our bodies and our emotions and use our puny powers of reason merely to rationalize our gut feelings after the fact."
"How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does."
"Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head."
"God is universal," spluttered the priest.The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God.""And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit."Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls.""They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in."While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people."
"All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement."
"They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice."
"I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now."
"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."
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