Canadian Media Quotes

#1. A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

Timothy Egan

#2. You see, a man's... ahem... is shaped differently from a woman's..." Mama fluttered her hand. "... whatsit. And in the marital bed, he will wish to place his..." More hand fluttering. "... inside yours."
"His ahem goes in my whatsit."
"In so many words. Yes.

Tessa Dare

#3. Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

Preston Manning

#5. My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.

Stompin' Tom Connors

#6. What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

Laozi

#7. I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.

Brian Cox

#8. He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.

Jean Thompson

#9. A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

Dave Ramsey

#10. If I confuse my ministerial duties with time spent alone with God, I can draw just enough spiritual nutrients from my job to make it through another day but not enough to sustain a life infused with the power and presence of Jesus.

Dave Jacobs

#11. You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger.

Hilary Duff

#13. Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

Joel Kinnaman

#14. I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

Barbra Streisand

#15. I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

Rachel Sklar

#16. But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

Vladimir Kramnik

#17. The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for reporters. In Ottawa, there is no such daily access. The media doesn't demand it, and as a result, major powerbrokers remain virtually anonymous.

Lawrence Martin

#18. You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

Eric Heiden

#19. Presence always wins out over principles.

Bill Johnson