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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
"Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times."
"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."
"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
"We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience."
"I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest."
"I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together."
"Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis."
"Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain."
"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."
"I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them."
"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."
"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
"They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special."
"The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone."
"Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms."
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
"It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher."
"When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had."
"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
"All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision."
"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street."
"As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business."
"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
"It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions."
"I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights."
"But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience."
"As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence."
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