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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be."
29
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
11
"My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent."
10
"The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together."
War,
9
"Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative."
8
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
8
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
8
"I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea."
7
"I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following."
7
"A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that."
7
"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."
7
"It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves."
7
"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
Time,
7
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
7
"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."
6
"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."
6
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
6
"We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest."
6
"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."
6
"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."
6
"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."
5
"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
5
"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
5
"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."
5
"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
5
"It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye."
5
"We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games."
5
"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
5
"Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine."
5
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
4
"Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week."
4
"I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it."
4
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
4
"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
4
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