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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
"You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better."
"Punctuality is the soul of business."
"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
"He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do."
"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence."
"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
"Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic."
"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes."
"Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble."
"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."
"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence."
"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older."
"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
"I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall."
"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained."
"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."
"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
"You cannot connect with anyone except through reality."
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
"Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time."
"We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor."
"Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses."
"I think so, she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay? "Nah, Michael's got mine. He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes."I've got yours."
"I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike."
"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
"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."
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