"I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians."

-- John Diefenbaker

#Country Quotes #Party Quotes #Italian Quotes

“I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.”

Source : "Illustrator Works on Harry Potter Books", www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2005.
“Above all, art should be fun.”
“The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.”
“Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.”
“Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.”
“A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.”
“Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.”
“Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"â€”"not permitted"â€”"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers”

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