Canadian Quotes

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

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?

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

I miss my mother very, very much.

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a ne

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.