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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick."
"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."
"I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off."
"The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease."
"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 think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform."
"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."
"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."
"I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah."
"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."
"A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
"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."
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
"It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game."
"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."
"I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman."
"The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet."
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?"
"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"I have become a housewife and there is no better job."
"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
"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."
"What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis."
"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."
"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."
"Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road."
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