“Chicago’s going to want to pour on all the throttles here.”
Play-by-play announcer on ESPN February 1987
“Romance lurks in unexpected places. We walk abroad amidst scenes made dull by familiarity, and let our thoughts ramble far away beyond the commonplace… and behold! all the time Romance is at our very doors.”
The narrator in R. Austin Freeman, “The Dead Hand,” in Douglas G. Greene, ed., Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (the reference is to adventure and wonder not love specifically).
“Our intellect, however, no matter how independent of the past it may behave in science and technology, is ever renewed and consecrated by the consciousness of its connection with the mind of the remotest times and civilization.”
Jacob Burckhardt Judgement on History and Historians
“The main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: Capitalism works.”
Dr. Mark J. Perry, Director of Center for World Capitalism at James Madison Institute, in The Freeman June 1995
“Anybody who knows everything should be told a thing or two.”
Franklin P. Jones (emailed by a friend without citation; it's widely quoted online).
“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).
“‘When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power… Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!’”
Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered
“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)