Quotes by Canadian authors

"Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl"

"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels"

"I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men"

"In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings"

"This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears"

"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person"

"I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all"

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"

"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations"

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability"

"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel"

"I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified"

"Trying to force creativity is never good"

"To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know"

"Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time"

"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things"

"If you've got a talent, protect it"

"If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know"

"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then"

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language"

"There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians"

"Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now"

"Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days"

"The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age"

"Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy"

"New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us"

"In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle"

"I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people"

"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA"

"There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation"