Great Newfoundland Sayings

#1. I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

Jerome K. Jerome

#2. The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.

Peace Pilgrim

#3. Fiction is a report from the interior.

Deborah Eisenberg

#4. She realized with a sort of depressed relief that she had no close friend to call, to tell them not to worry about her.

Catherine Coulter

#5. The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

John Mayer

#6. Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

Lasse Hallstrom

#7. As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

Sydney Smith

#8. Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

Dave Matthews

#9. You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

Joseph Delaney

#10. When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Aaron Douglas

#11. She was a steady date until she put on some weight.

Frank Zappa

#12. There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting on and off buses in London, looking at household interiors.

Sara Sheridan

#13. Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.

Michael Winter