Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 2)

"I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride"

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi"

"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women"

Emily Carr, Artist

"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris"

Larry Wall, Author

"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion"

John McDonald, Leader

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"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"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds"

John Candy, Comedian

"I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up"

Nancy Greene, Athlete

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

Al Boliska, Writer

"I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor"

Molly Parker, Actress

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"

Neil Peart, Musician

"Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?"

Francis Bond Head, Statesman

"Greetings and death to our enemies"

Dan Aykroyd, Comedian

"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Fate is for losers"

Doug Coupland, Author

"It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

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