top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Canadian Authors
"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."
"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."
"Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so."
"You cannot connect with anyone except through reality."
"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
"The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not."
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
"I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to."
"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."
"Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point."
"I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off."
"Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly."
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
"I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else."
"At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far."
"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!"
"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."
"I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot."
"With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue."
"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 have become a housewife and there is no better job."
"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the world. A film camera can last decades if you know how to look after it, but digital things can break down instantly. A violent storm, a nuclear bomb, even something as minor as a cracked screen or the releasing of newer models, can make a digital product just a block of useless metal."
"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."
"I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye."
"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends."
"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."
bottom of page