Quotes by Canadian authors

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Bryan Adams

Canadian singer-songwriter

There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.

Catherine Mary Stewart

Canadian actress.

The NHL is a fast-paced game, things happen quick when you've been out of action for a while and it takes some time to catch up.

Carey Price

Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently under contract

Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

Frank Gehry

Canadian-American architect

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

Phil Hartman

Actor, Comedian

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

Randy Bachman

Canadian guitarist

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

Myron Scholes

Canadian-American economist

I don't like protecting pharmaceutical industries and increasing their profits and making our drugs cost more. If the U.S. Democrats could get rid of those problems I'd be much happier.

Elizabeth May

Party leader of the Green Party of Canada

I come to work, and I have a good time. I have no reason to change anything that I do.

Jim Pattison

Canadian business magnate

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Marshall McLuhan

Canadian philosopher

My T-shirts wrinkle because I sweat a lot.

Antoni Porowski

Canadian TV personality

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.

Laurieann Gibson

Canadian choreographer

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Norman Jewison

Canadian film director

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

K'naan

Somali-Canadian musician

I must admit, I was born to officiate; I was made to officiate. I miss it. I knew why I was doing it. God made me to umpire.

Doug Harvey

Canadian coach

Children are keenly aware of every situation where mother figuratively wears the pants in the home, and they're scornful of her for it. By the same token, the same attitude on the part of their father commands respect, even If it may at times engender fear.

Lorne Greene

Canadian actor

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

Eric San

Canadian DJ

I went from beating John Cena in my first match to winning the Intercontinental title to defending it at WrestleMania.

Kevin Owens

Canadian professional wrestler

It's been a crazy ride, truly a Cinderella story.

Bianca Andreescu

Canadian professional tennis player

I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

Pamela Anderson

Canadian-American actress

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