"We are like yeast in a vat - mindlessly multiplying as we greedily devour a finite world. If we do not change our ways, we will perish as the yeasts perish - having exhausted our sustenance and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes."
- Farley Mowat
"The only Canadian mythology is that there is a Canadian mythology."
- Irving Layton
"In Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
- Irving Layton
"A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe."
- Pierre Berton
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
- Dr. Seuss
"I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood."
- Tori Spelling
"I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture."
- Kevin Costner
"I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?""
- Margaret Cho
"You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in."
- Jamie Foxx
"It's a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic. I haven't had time to visit the theatre, but I find it remarkable that Toronto has the third-largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, after New York and London. I once noticed a fellow sitting on a bench, then I realized it was a statue of Glenn Gould. It's very realistic."
- Donald Trump
"The best part is the food. There are some great Italian restaurants I go to whenever I am in Toronto."
- Mary-Kate Olsen
"I like Toronto; the people are really chill."
- Rihanna
"I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"
- Ken Jennings
"I used to go to Maple Leaf games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here."
- Tom Cruise
"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."
- Steven Wright
"I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. I wanted to destroy something beautiful."
- Narrator, Fight Club
"Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental."
- Jim McKenny
"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."
- Roger Ebert
"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."
- Katharine Whitehorn
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
- Mark Twain
"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."
- Will Rogers
"The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did! Good for him!"
- Jack Handey
"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare
"If you play more than two chords, you're showing off."
- Woody Guthrie
"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
- Jean Paul Richter
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is "soap-on-a-rope."
- Bill Cosby
"Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was."
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Diarios de motocicleta
"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different... Now... where was I?"
- Leonard Shelby, Memento
"I dont wanna come back down from this cloud. Taken me all this time to find out what I need."
- Bush, Comedown
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle
"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
- Washington Irving
"Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives," Wayne. Crime. Despair. This is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years... We sacked Rome. Loaded trade ships with plague rats. Burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence... We Return to restore the balance."
- Henri Ducard, Batman Begins
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
"'In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
- Margaret Atwood
"'Twas Easter Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."
- Will Rogers
"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
- Robertson Davies
"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
- Franz Kafka
"On the seventh day the Lord rested, but before that he did, he squatted over the side of England and what came out of him... was Ireland. No offence son."
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting, Gangs of New York
"I say, thou mad March hare."
- John Skelton
"Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast."
- Joe Garagiola
"There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish."
- Walt Disney
"What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs."
- Babe Ruth
"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care."
- Jimmy Buffett
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
- Marcus Brigstocke
"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
- Vince Lombardi
"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."
- Paul Sweeney
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
- George Dubya Bush
"The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!"
- Edward Payson Powell
"For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace."
- Isaiah 9:5
"I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days."
- Jon Stewart
"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
- Thomas Edison
"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."
- Det. Graham Waters, Crash
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
- Groucho Marx
"People can have the Model T in any colour, so long as it's black."
- Henry Ford
"You can't jump a jet plane, like you can a freight train."
- Gordon Lightfoot, Early Morning Rain
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
- John McCrae, In Flanders Fields
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
- Dan Quayle
"I don't even know what street Canada is on."
- Al Capone
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive."
- Stephen Leacock
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
- Erma Bombeck
"It's not the band I hate, it's their fans."
- Sloan, Coax Me
"And you know that she will trust you for you've touched her perfect body with your mind."
- Leonard Cohen, Suzanne
"Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me."
- Terry Fox
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
- President George W. Bush
"The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away"
- Randy Newman, Louisiana
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth."
- Albert Einstein
"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you."
- Wayne Gretzky
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."
- Voltaire
"For those regarded as warriors, when engaged in combat the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God, or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat."
- Hattori Hanzo, Kill Bill: Vol. 1
"The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal."
- Cicero
"I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
- Helen Keller
"I don't want you as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton. I want you as quiet as an ant not even thinking about pissing on cotton."
- Joe Moore, Heist
"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
- Bono
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
- Jean Paul Richter
"I tried hard to have a father, but instead I had a dad."
- Nirvana, Serve The Servants
"Do You Realize that everyone you know someday will die?"
- The Flaming Lips, Do You Realize?
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
"I can resist everything except temptation."
- Oscar Wilde
"We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege."
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"I didn't really say everything I said."
- Yogi Berra
"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
- Agatha Christie
"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that..."
- George Carlin
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
- Mark Twain
"Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
- Henry Kissinger
"Canadians are heir to an extraordinarily rich humanism...But the core of your heritage is the spiritual and transcendent vision of life based on Christian revelation, which has given vital impetus to your development as a free, democratic and caring society, one that is recognized throughout the world as a champion of human rights and human dignity."
- Pope John Paul II
"He is risen; he is not here."
- Mark 16:6
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
- Carl Gustav Jung
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
- Ted Williams
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "
- Hunter S. Thompson
"You know, we're not the only ones destroying trees. What about beavers? You call yourself an environmentalist, why don't you go club a few beavers?"
- Lindsay Funke, Arrested Development
"Sittin' here resting my bones,
And this loneliness won't leave me alone
It's two thousand miles I roamed
Just to make this dock my home."
- Otis Redding, (Sittin') On The Dock Of The Bay
"I'll be honest with you, I love his music, I do, I'm a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, it doesn't get any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman"."
- Bob Slydell, Office Space
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."
- Clarence Darrow
"Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat."
- Lt. Frank Drebin, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
"They say, when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."
- Ed Bloom, Big Fish
"Like maple syrup, Canada's evil oozes over the United States."
- TV Announcer, Canadian Bacon
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
- John Lennon
"Caught, now in court 'cause I stole a beat
This is a sampling sport
But I'm giving it a new name
What you hear is mine."
- Public Enemy, Caught, Can I Get A Witness
"I hate Christmas. The mall is full of nothing but women and children. All you hear is "I want this.", "Get me this.", "I have to have this."... and then there's the children. And they're all by my store 'cause they stuck the mall Santa right outside ringing his stupid bell. As if you need a bell to notice a 300-pound alcoholic in a red suit. "Ho, ho, ho," all day long. So, nice as can be, I go outside, ask him to shut the hell up. He takes a swing at me. So I lay a hook into his fat belly and he goes down. Beard comes off, all the kids start crying and I'm the bad guy."
- Al Bundy, Married...With Children
"If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murders come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help."
- Henry Hill, Goodfellas
"Whether or not what we experienced was an According to Hoyle miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved. "
- Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
"It's true what they say: Cops and women don't mix. It's like eating a spoonful of Drano, sure it'll clean you out, but it'll leave you hollow inside."
- Lt. Frank Drebin, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
"Everybody wants something, they'll never give up.
Everybody wants something, they'll take your money and never give up."
- The Zit Remedy
"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? "
- Rob Gordon, High Fidelity
"I've learned there are three things you don't discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."
- Linus, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
- Mother Teresa
"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."
- Terence Mann, Field of Dreams
"Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience."
- Sadi, The Gulistan
"Run, Forrest! Run!"
- Jenny Curran, Forrest Gump
"You know, we're not the only ones destroying trees. What about beavers? You call yourself an environmentalist, why don't you go club a few beavers?"
- Lindsay Funke, Arrested Development
"These days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Yeah, I'm hot, because I'm tired of people taking shots at Canadian hockey. It sickens my stomach to turn the TV on. It makes me ill to hear what's being said. . . . I know the whole world wants us to lose, except for Canada and Canada fans and our players. We'll be there. We'll be standing."
- Wayne Gretzky
"Sun's goin' down, and it's all dark at the ballpark, but that's okay...it's a night game."
- "Ok Blue Jays Lets Play Ball", Blue Jays Team Song
"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
- Ricky Fitts, American Beauty
"So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life."
- Peter Gibbons, Office Space
"Citius, Altius, Fortius"
- Olympic Motto
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- George W. Bush
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
- Sigmund Freud
"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."
- Alfred E. Wiggam
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine."
- Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."
- Yoda, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine."
- George Washington
"Don't trust anyone over thirty."
- Jack Weinberg
"It is a wise father that know his own child."
- William Shakespeare
"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."
- Ray Charles
"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
- Ronald Reagan
"Yeah, you're the shit, but you won't be it for long, oh, there's always someone cooler than you."
- Ben Folds, "There's Always Someone Cooler Than You"
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
- Queen Victoria
"There will never be a salary cap. I've told the players to be prepared for a long lockout by the owners. It may last a year, it may last two or three years, but we will never accept a salary cap. This isn't the NFL. I'm confident the players are prepared for whatever happens."
- Bob Goodenow
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference."
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