Quotes About Canadian Prairies

#1. Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

John Sterling

#2. Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Buddy Hackett

#3. Instead of having a baby, why dont you get a tattoo of a baby first, and see how that works out for six months to a year, and then see if you're ready to have a baby.

Chelsea Handler

#4. Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

Douglas Coupland

#5. As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

Bonnie Bedelia

#6. I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

Anne Michaels

#7. If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

Taisen Deshimaru

#8. I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

Pierce Brosnan

#9. When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I'd like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

Laozi

#11. Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

Robert Fulghum

#12. Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.

Firoz Thairinil

#13. I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Miriam Toews

#14. Those who are hardest to love need it the most

Pattie Mallette

#15. What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

Stuart Rothenberg

#16. eager to see such a wonderful thing,

Anonymous

#17. When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Pat Conroy