Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 10

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.
Stuart Keate
Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.
Walter Stewart
There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.
William Arthur Deacon
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlet Brebner
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
Goldwin Smith
Canada is a society rather than a nation.
Kildare Dobbs
You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.
Al Purdy
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
David Cronenberg
The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.
Hugh Keenleyside
No one is the worse for knowing two languages.
Oliver Mowat
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
Stephen Leacock
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
Tommy Douglas
The father of confederation is deadlock.
Goldwin Smith
After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family who I hear are wonderful people.
Howie Mandel
Dullness is a misdemeanor.
Ethel Wilson
Dullness is a misdemeanour.
Ethel Wilson
A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.
Lome Pierce
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Marshall McLuhan
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Northrop Frye
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Marshall McLuhan
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
Laurence J. Peter
What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."
Toni Anderson
Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth.
Doug Spettigue
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith
An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
Hugh MacLennan
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
John Murray Gibbon
It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
George Woodcock
I am convinced it is a mistake to find an artist human outside his work. If you cannot find him human in and through his work you are better not to know it when you come to formulate an opinion of his public value.
Kenneth Winters
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
Pioneers did not produce original works of art because they were creating original human environments they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.
George Woodcock
Culture is something you cannot buy something you cannot import something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple enduring elements of everyday life elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.
Thor Hansen
(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Lawren Harris
Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.
Etienne Gaboury
Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
Arthur Erickson
Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
Margaret Atwood
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
J. K. Galbraith
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
June Callwood
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Stephen Leacock
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
Ray Smith
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan
Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?
W. A. C. Bennett
I feel age like an icicle down my back.
Dyson Carter
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
J. K. Galbraith
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser
When things come to the worse they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.
Emily Carr
If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.
Jack Carson
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
Stephen Leacock
Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion.
Kate Reid
There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.
Louis Dudek
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
William Van Home
Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.
William Van Horne
Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there’s a leaf or two it’ll be represented.
Saul Bellow