Canon Quotations

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full canon of experiences, so every moment that you have here feels like the last moment in the world, because you've only had a handful of whatever those moments are.

We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

We know what the canon is, and people can argue whether you should study F. Scott Fitzgerald or D.H. Lawrence ... I probably would put Shakespeare right in the middle - on that, George Pell and I agree.

Museums covet his works. They're hard to find. They're expensive when they do find them. And they're often an embarrassing gap in the canon for museums that don't have them.

My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

From our camp at the pocket the wall of the Grand Canon was visible some 15 miles down the valley.

I expect good numbers from Canon again. Canon's cameras are doing surprisingly well despite an industry-wide price slump. They are committed to keeping up margins.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

I think we were agreed that he has already entered the canon of modern American drama among the immortals, along with Eugene O' Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller. It's just delightful that he would even consider accepting our offer because his stature is so unique in world literature.

Overall results indicate continued solid execution in a tough environment where Canon continues to outpace its competitors.

My fan fiction is canon.

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.

We are excited that our visibility solution can address an important delivery management requirement for Canon Europe. This is a great example of how Descartes' services-based business model allows companies such as Canon Europe to pilot and see the business value of our solutions before having to make significant financial commitments to use our technology.

Firms that you can hold on to without worrying are seeing some buying ... Sony, Toyota and Canon are worry-free, and a lot of investment trusts are designed to include those kind of stocks.

We all got cameras from Canon and we're all taking pictures, and they'll upload them on LPGA.com. It's a fan-friendly thing the team is doing. We want our fans to be able to see it through our eyes. You'll probably see pictures of us taking pictures of other people taking pictures.

We had reached the Canon on the second level or edge of the great gulf. Above and around us rose a wall of 2000 feet and below us a vast chasm 2500 feet in perpendicular depth and 1/2 a mile wide.

One day I was driving between Canon City and Dodge City, Kan., and I conducted a windshield survey on salt cedar trees. Based on an average width I conservatively estimated that those trees would drink 700,000 billion gallons a year.

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

The Canon PTZ cameras are unique in the fact they the user interface is completely intuitive; it allow people of all different Internet skills, levels and interests to interact with it immediately.

I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.

I'm flying blind here. I guess it makes sense that she's a qualified conservative. I can't imagine the President appointing an loose canon ignoramus just because he knew them. I guess we'll find out after she's installed.

The color of the Great Canon itself is red, a light Indian Red, and the material sandstone and red marble and is in terraces all the way down.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.