Famous Black Canadian Quotes & Sayings

I'm about to lose my eyesight and she can't handle it. — John Green

We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us! — Avijeet Das

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire. — Hanif Kureishi

Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary animus against private property. You may call this phenomenon degeneracy. But I tell you that you cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into the prose of honest vegetation by any gingerbread reward, or by the offer of a secure position, or by the gift of money, or by a woman's love: because there is here a permanent beauty of risk, a fascinating abyss of danger, the delightful sinking of the heart, the impetuous pulsation of life, the ecstasy! — Thomas Seltzer

He tracks the rise and fall of the glittering darkness thronged with specks and tendrils of luminous secrets. Falling stars crackle in the cold air and prickle his skin. They flash in the corner of his vision where the eye's discernment of light and shadow is most acute. — John Pipkin

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group. — Stephen Tobolowsky

Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place where mind, body and soul would be utterly satisfied. — Michael Palin

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby. — Amanda Holden

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time ...
... why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me. — Jandy Nelson

Science... internet... and women have one in common all end up as biatch.... So it's very bitchy, when they don't stop talking. — Deyth Banger

The general ignominy that is the corollary of insight, i.e., the ignominy of having thus far lived in error, of having failed, until the moment of so-called insight, to understand what could have been understood earlier, an ignominy only deepened by prospective shame, because the moment of insight serves as a reminder that more such moments lie ahead, and that one always goes forward in error. — Joseph O'Neill

Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once. — Cameron Dokey

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her. — Oscar Levant