Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 4)

"Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!"

"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"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"Personality is lower than partiality"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"I think making a good film shot is joyful"

William Shatner, Actor

"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor"

William Shatner, Actor

"I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?"

William Shatner, Actor

"I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game"

David Cronenberg, Director

"From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true"

David Cronenberg, Director

"We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing"

George Stephen, Businessman

"If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness"

Jean Vanier, Philosopher

"I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too"

Rick Danko, Musician

"In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"I could see us doing solo material in the future"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"The best artists know what to leave out"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

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