Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 8)

"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself"

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie"

"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon"

Doug Coupland, Author

"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely"

Doug Coupland, Author

"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car"

Doug Coupland, Author

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

Doug Coupland, Author

"If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want"

Doug Coupland, Author

"It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either"

Doug Coupland, Author

"If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I've got 911 on speed dial"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs"

Doug Coupland, Author