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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."
"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity."
"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."
"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."
"Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love."
"What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis."
"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 enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury."
"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
"I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform."
"The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--""You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking."He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means there's no choice.""Not really," Claire agreed. "I was kind of lying about that choice thing."
"Oliver paused for a few seconds, then leaned forward with his elbows braced on his knees, pale hands dangling. "When I was . . . transformed, I thought in the beginning that I could stay with those mortals I loved. It isn't smart. You should understand this by now. We stay apart for a reason."You stay apart so you don't feel guilty for doing what it is you do, I shot back. "I'm not like you. I'll never be like you. Best of all, I don't have to be."
"I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring."
"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."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy."
"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies."
"But the irony: Don't I often want to desperately wriggle free of the confines of a small life? Yet when I stand before immensity that heightens my smallness--I have never felt sadness. Only burgeoning wonder. Is it because within each frame of finite flesh lies the likeness of infinite God? In all things large and spectacular, we recognize glimpses of home and the call to our own deeper chemistry. Do we writhe to peel out of our smallness and into the big life because that fits our inborn God-image?"
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."
"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."
"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."
"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."
"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
"If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved."
"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."
"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."
"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors."
"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
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