Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Canadian Authors - Page 20

Winning makes coaches, teammates, owners, fans all happy... I didn't care if we win 7-6 as long as we win.

Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by 'feminist.' In the beginning, I used to say, 'Well, of course I'm a feminist.' But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not.

All talent needs is credibility and the freedom to create. That is all. That's what will make the talent happy, that's what makes me happy to this day.

The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Watching comedy for the first time I felt absolutely on fire. I just couldn't believe there was this environment where people were being applauded for the weirdest things about themselves.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

So many girls second-think their pose or what they're doing. And, in turn, the photos will come out really unnatural. I say to really give the camera a performance - that, and make sure you're comfortable with how you look, and give it a good smile and a filter.

My expectations on myself exceed any of those put on me.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Few incumbents will succeed in deploying blockchain applications to enable new business models. The innovator's dilemma will prevail. Even if they aspire to, they must first get their feet wet within their business boundaries.

Hopefully my time in Nashville has helped me. We've had a lot of different things happen to our hockey club, seen a lot of different situations and different types of clubs from an expansion team to a Stanley Cup playoff threat. I think any coach that's gone through those things, you become a better coach.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a generally sophisticated atmosphere.

Harry Potter' is my favorite movie of all time.

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.

The secret to my success is persistence.

I get mad about something, and then I have this melody in my head, and then afterwards, the lyrics come.

You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.

I'd make a bad preacher.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

Hockey is not a one-man show; it's a team effort. If you don't work as a team - even if one or two guys aren't working - you're not going to win. That's the way it is.

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

Patience for me is a big thing. Patience with others. Patience with the way the world is evolving. I have a sense of urgency because I want to help out so much.

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.

We need to move towards a truly just and equitable society by... making sure that every Canadian - whether they're living in long-term care or they're working part-time or they're students or they're Black or they're Indigenous - whatever their circumstances, can live in dignity and security.

I have the greatest life in the world because I created it.

I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.

The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.

I'm completely fine with my career. I feel like I accomplished everything I ever set out to accomplish.

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in Italy, and my dad was born in Canada and moved back and forth between Canada and Italy, so they would also listen to all the big Italian stars like Eros Ramazzotti, Gigi D'Alessio, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

Planning a wedding seems easy, but there are a lot of details to think of.

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

I look forward to batting practice. I look forward to practice work.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

Women are better than men.

Most of the fans of Calpurnia are 'Stranger Things' fans, which is not a big deal at all. They're super loyal and incredible, and really do like the music. It's the people who aren't fans of the music and are just there because of 'Stranger Things' that really bother me.

It's an honor playing in this League and I have always felt that.