“big, bald security guards, who could scare a smile off a statue…” News story in Ottawa Citizen Feb. 23 2002 (the felicitous writer was Paul Gessell)
“There is nothing more wonderful to have in one’s life than time. I don’t think people get enough of it, nowadays…. You open your eyes and here is another day; another step on your journey to an unknown place. That very exciting journey which is your life. Not that it is necessarily going to be exciting as a life, but it will be exciting to you because it is your life.” Agatha Christie in her autobiography quoted by Donna Jacobs “Monday Morning” in Ottawa Citizen Jan. 16 2006.
“history is what happened, not what we wish had happened.”
Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?
“The alternative to perfection of self is perfection of others: Either I will concentrate on me and my welfare or on others and their welfare; in other words, mind my own business or mind other people’s business.”
Leonard E. Read Let Freedom Reign
“If a man starts to run, there’s nothing to do but keep running.”
Louis L’Amour Flint
“The successful man knows something about everything.”
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, their father, quoted by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. And Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper by the Dozen
“Religion stands at the core of culture, central to social relations and material productivity.”
Theodore von Laue The World Revolution of Westernization
“He’s not from the old school. He went to the school they tore down to build the old school.” Announcer on TSN August 20 1998 (possibly not quoted exactly as I lunged for a pen after he said it; I believe it was the Toronto Argonaut-Hamilton Tiger-Cat game)