Montreal Winter Quotes

#1. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Steve Maraboli

#2. There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

Robert Cormier

#3. Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

Rebecca Solnit

#4. And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Morgan Freeman

#5. Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Max Planck

#7. Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, the winter has not killed us again!

Leonard Cohen

#9. Captain Black knew he was a subversive because he wore eyeglasses and used words like panacea and utopia, and because he disapproved of Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating unAmerican activities in Germany.

Joseph Heller

#10. She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Mavis Gallant

#11. Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn't mind, I was feeling flush.

Peter Heller

#12. I keep forgetting you're technologically challenged.

Colleen Hoover