Top 50 Canon Quotes

We’re always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female protagonist who finds her way through. My way is unusual.

I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless.

I didn’t know I was a zombie pedant until I started considering what from the zombie canon to keep in ‘Zone One’ and what to ignore.

Eighty per cent of my output is ‘Mallory clowns on the Western canon,’ and I’m happy to be that person.

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.

Many of Judy Blume’s books – which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me – caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they’re widely accepted as an essential part of the children’s literary canon.

Everything that I’ve worked on at Lucasfilm has been considered canon.

‘Black Watch’ has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that’s fantastic. It’s a very particular kind of theatre. It’s about the music, the movement, the whole ‘event’ of it.

A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon, and looking radical. Like when people point to punk in the indie world: If you point to the history of punk as what you see as your legacy, that’s more prized and praised.

I don’t like to believe in canon.

All Scripture is God-breathed… but what we have to understand also is that the Canon of Scripture still is coming from a place of a loving God.

I didn’t come up through the ranks of the conservative movement… I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.

I can’t remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas.

I’m one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt… I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

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.

The rules changed for art around 1989. We were all loosed upon the canon to clip and paste and borrow and update. Only thing is, unless you were in New York or in a cultural studies program, that new paradigm probably wasn’t going to sink in until the Internet arrived.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as ‘canon,’ and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that’s what makes them in some ways good fans.

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

In terms of the ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ movie, Bryan Singer has been a part of the X-Men family from the first movie. He knows about the comics canon and how it relates to his work as a filmmaker. He’s more well versed in the canon than most, as are the people that are working with him.

I don’t really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare’s canon, and he’s the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in – and yet audiences adore that character.

Working on ‘Clone Wars,’ it was always canon.

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I’d get comments like, ‘You should consider writing more universal stories.’ But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl – just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It’s important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story. Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you.

What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It’s a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.

‘The Canon’ is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast ‘Backlisted.’ Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren’t new.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

The challenge is, in terms of a canon like ‘X-Men,’ it’s more like ‘Harry Potter’ and Hogwarts, or ‘Game of Thrones.’ It needs time and space to evolve and to bring the reader or viewer in and give them a result that’s worth the investment of that time.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

When you do an animated series and add characters who are not from the canon, you really have to win over the hardcore fans.

Along with ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘The Room,’ ‘Lebowski’ belongs in the canon of nouveau cult classics.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don’t like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.

We mainly shot ‘Cartel Land’ with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed.

Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don’t seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass.

One of the interesting things about the ‘Decameron’ itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin vernacular – and that was mainly to have it be a piece of literature for the people as supposed to some kind of highfalutin’ canon.

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.

I know the Mad Hatter has a long history in the ‘Batman’ canon. He’s quite a historically rich character, and he’s come in a lot of shapes and forms and interpretations.

Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.

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.

Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.