Quotes by Canadian Authors

"I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive."

Elvis Stojko, Canadian Athlete

Being,

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"One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me."

Mario Lemieux, Canadian Athlete

People, Hate, Talk, Want

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"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."

Edward Blake, Canadian Politician

Fear, Beginning, Carnival, Crime

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"Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it."

Alex Lifeson, Canadian Musician

Time, Life, Hope, Thinking

1

"In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back."

Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic

People, Fashion, Years

1

"However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance."

Tim Murphy, Canadian Politician

Health, Medical, Community

1

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Beginning, End

1

"And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Film, Reason, Romantic

1

"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

Life, Day, Living

1

"We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time."

Steve Yzerman, Canadian Athlete

Time, Play

1

"It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Action, Selling, Violence, Want

1

"We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible."

Marc Garneau, Canadian Astronaut

Science, Meeting, Safety, Space, Tools

1

"As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."

Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician

God, Religion, Unity

1

"I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work."

Donald McKay, Canadian Designer

Time, Work, Job, Writer

1

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

Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Statesman

Religion, Divinity, English, Language

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"We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time."

Mark Messier, Canadian Athlete

Time,

1

"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit."

Ted Lindsay, Canadian Athlete

Attitude, Family, Manager, Resentment

1

"The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them."

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

Wonder, Sight, Wonders, World

1

"I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed."

Alex Morrison, Canadian Soldier

Military, Nations, Needs, United

1

"No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest."

Goldwin Smith, Canadian Historian

History, Artist, Interest

1

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."

Wayne Gretzky, Canadian Athlete

Work, Compliment, Day

1

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Family,

1

"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."

Bobby Hull, Canadian Athlete

Pressure, Pretty

1

"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Thought, Care, Writing

1

"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

Laurence J. Peter, Canadian Writer

Direction, America, Country

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"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen."

John Ralston Saul, Canadian Author

Balance, Democracy, Key

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"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose."

Atom Egoyan, Canadian Director

Work, Purpose, Conviction, Trying

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"You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with."

Steve Nash, Canadian Athlete

Opinion, Respect, Voice

1

"When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want."

Randy Bachman, Canadian Musician

Success, Successful, Pretty, Want

1

"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

World,

1

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

Perception, Eye, Mind

1

"So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around."

Alan Thicke, Canadian Actor

Life, Advice, Reality, Television

1

"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

Want,

1

"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."

George Stephen, Canadian Businessman

Writing, Years

1

"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites."

J. Philippe Rushton, Canadian Psychologist

Science, Canada, States, United

1

"I'm just a husband waltzing in the background."

Bruce Greenwood, Canadian Actor

Husband,

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"When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky."

Joe Sakic, Canadian Athlete

Hockey, Canada

1

"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction."

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician

Peace, Science, Technology, War

1

"The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government."

Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician

Government, Leader, Obligation, Opposition

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"I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap."

Sebastian Bach, Canadian Musician

Music, Emotion, Rap

1

"People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot."

Keanu Reeves, Canadian Actor

Thought, People, Gay, Land

1

"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."

Michael Ignatieff, Canadian Politician

Peace,

1

"Above all nations is humanity."

Goldwin Smith, Canadian Historian

Humanity, Nations

1

"Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate."

John Metcalf, Canadian Editor

Writing, Writers

1

"I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious."

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

Music, People, Being, Faces

1

"I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?"

Paul Haggis, Canadian Director

Family, Work, Soul, Artist

1

"I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it."

Ryan Reynolds, Canadian Actor

Love,

1

"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."

Preston Manning, Canadian Politician

Legal, Society, People, Gender

1

"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."

Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician

Abortion, Party

1

"The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father."

Peter Jennings, Canadian Journalist

Life, Father