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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
"I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years."
"Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer."
"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
"Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision."
"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling."
"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."
"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."
"Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses."
"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."
"I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually."
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't."
"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length."
"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies."
"Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics."
"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."
"The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah..."
"Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston."
"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."
"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about."
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
"In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't."
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