In my latest Convivium article I say the people playing at holding a Black Mass in Ottawa weren’t serious… which is.
“Marge: Sweetie, you could still go to McGill. The Harvard of Canada./ Lisa: Anything that's the Something of the Something isn't really the Anything of Anything”
The Simpsons “MoneyBART” episode, according to www.simpsonseh.com, a website about the Simpsons and Canada (the setup is that Lisa is worried that she’s not doing enough extracurricular stuff to get into an Ivy League university).
“You’ve been spending too much time with him lately.”
Comment by one colleague about another in March 2002 that prompted this addition to my "That doesn't narrow the field much" file of insults (the title inspired by one of the greatest putdowns in movie history, from Clint Eastwood's character in The Eiger Sanction)
“I remember when Jack Smith, putting together a story on me, read me a quote from Jack London: ‘I would rather be a meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.’ ‘What does that mean to you?’ Jack Smith asked. I thought for a long moment, and then I said, ‘Throw deep.’”
Kenny Stabler Snake
In the winter forest “There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness – a laughter that was as mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.”
Jack London White Fang
“I know what you’re thinking. You’ll never find a man quite like me.”
Some character (I didn’t record which) on the TV show “Family Matters” on TBS June 6, 1996
“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.”
Bertold Brecht, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com