Toronto Quotes

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.

I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

I love Toronto, It's the best city.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

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

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.

The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal.

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!

My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself.

And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.

I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

I like Toronto; the people are really chill.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.

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

In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world.

I know what it's like to live in a cold climate. I grew up in the Snow Belt, north of Toronto in Canada, and I did years and years of running outside.

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.