“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ralph_waldo_emerson_384371

Re the iPod Canada site opening and having 700,000 songs “it’s striking that almost everyone I’ve asked took only about 10 minutes to discover what they couldn’t find. As they used to say on MTV, too much is never enough.”

Paul Wells in Maclean’s December 20, 2004

“A ceñoso is something too low to kick and too wet to step on.”

A character on the TV show Hunter March 21, 1991.

“Work fast, change speeds, throw strikes.”

The 3 keys to pitching, according to the announcers on Toronto Blue Jays’ game September 5, 1995

Someone’s eagle “really took the wind out of [another player’s] hands.”

Announcer on TBS Jan. 16, 1994, reminiscing about the Hawaiian Open 10 years earlier

“Concerning aesthetic values, I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain, and hear the laugh of a child.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title

In my latest Loonie Politics column I question the urgency, given the COVID-19 pandemic, of Canada’s ongoing bid to buy a UN Security Council non-veto seat because otherwise Norway might get it.

“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”

Anne in Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables