"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."      - Aldous Huxley

Watching 30 Rock tonight, I just heard special guest star Steve Martin, playing eccentric businessman Gavin Volure, make the following statement. Toronto is just like New York but without all the scum stuff.

"We are like yeast in a vat - mindlessly multiplying as we greedily devour a finite world.  If we do not change our ways, we will perish as the yeasts perish - having exhausted our sustenance and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes."      -  Farley Mowat

"The only Canadian mythology is that there is a Canadian mythology."      -  Irving Layton

"In Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."      -  Irving Layton

"A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe."      -  Pierre Berton

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of

"I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from.  The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged.  The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married.  My family lives here, my stepson lives

"I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful.  Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture."      -  Kevin Costner

"I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.  I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks

"You guys have so much energy.  I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in."      -  Jamie Foxx

"It's a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic.  I haven't had time to visit the theatre, but I find it remarkable that Toronto has the third-largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, after New York and London.  I once noticed a fellow sitting on a bench, then I

"The best part is the food.  There are some great Italian restaurants I go to whenever I am in Toronto."      -  Mary-Kate Olsen

"I like Toronto; the people are really chill."      -  Rihanna

"I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny.  What would he write?  "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"      -  Ken Jennings

"I used to go to Maple Leaf games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto.  This is a great city.  I love it here."      -  Tom Cruise

"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."      -  Steven Wright

"I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. I wanted to destroy something beautiful."      -

"Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental."      -  Jim McKenny

"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."      -  Roger Ebert

"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."      -  Katharine Whitehorn

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."      -  Mark Twain

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."      -  Will Rogers

"The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did! Good for him!"      -  Jack Handey

"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."      -  A. Bartlett