Am Quote by Michael Ignatieff

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to…

— Jane Jacobs

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois…

— Michael Ignatieff

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of…

— Michael Ignatieff

Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.

— Michael Ignatieff

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a…

— Wadah Khanfar

The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged…

— Bernard Bailyn

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

— Peg Bracken

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England,…

— Robert Hass

The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king…

— Doug Stanhope

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?

— Will Self

There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

— Audrey Tautou

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray…

— Iggy Pop

“Academic philosophers in the English speaking world still regard philosophy as Locke defined it in the 17th century, as “the handmaiden of the sciences”:…

— Roger Scruton