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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
"If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents."
"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it."
"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
"Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it."
"For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors."
"I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together."
"Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world."
"I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it."
"May you begin living beyond."
"I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together."
"I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way."
"Life is a one shot deal, it is entirely up to you what you do with it. Me? I intend to make it the best I can, for as long as I can."
"We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy."
"Enjoy things for what they are, when they are, in the moment."
"Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit."
"In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right."
"I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows."
"Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest."
"Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds."
"But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers."
"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
"We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased."
"I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing."
"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on."
"Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com."
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."
"The ramifications of workplace violence can have a lingering effect on the organization for generations."
"A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past."
"Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!"
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