Maida Quotes

#1. I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

David Cook

#2. Sometimes we wonder what it's like to feel normal," Maida said. "You know, like all the people you see out on the streets or sitting in their little boxy homes."

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"But then", Maida went on, "we see how boring they are and we're happy to be the way we are.

Charles De Lint

#3. When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.

Raine Maida

#4. There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way.

Allen Carr

#5. Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Travis Bradberry

#6. I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

Elizabeth Taylor

#7. Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.

Maida Heatter

#8. God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision

Sunday Adelaja

#9. They move about listlessly and apparently without much purpose; they might just as well be lunatics.

Henry Miller

#10. If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Beatrice Webb

#11. Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. I've got more officers who speak Arabic in one precinct that you guys have in the entire D.O.D.!

Brian K. Vaughan

#12. 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

Raine Maida

#13. When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God ... ' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

Raine Maida

#14. I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

Raine Maida

#15. Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

Alice Cooper

#16. Oh, I'm sure you could come up with something, and even then, you'd dress it up in a way that would probably make me want it.

Ella Frank

#17. I feel like every single person has guardian angels.

Doreen Virtue

#18. And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means

Raine Maida

#19. Like I said, it's weird being in love with your best friend.
It'seven weirder when the rest of the world is in love with him, too.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#20. It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver.

Matt Haig

#21. I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

Raine Maida

#22. I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

Raine Maida

#23. The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

Oswald Chambers

#24. It's so hard and impossible to shoot in L.A. The costs are astronomical.

Joel Silver