“The school budget crisis is reaching a critical stage.”
WGN (Channel 40 in Vancouver) News August 20, 1993
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down to the green valleys of silliness.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail January 19, 2009
“We are really bags of water with things in it.”
John Steart Collis Living with a Stranger
“Don’t be afraid to speak up. Remember, whatever you say about the subject and however fallacious it might be, the same thing has already been said by some eminent economist.”
Ludwig von Mises, quoted from memory by Murray Rothbard in The Essential von Mises
“Nobody really cares if you're miserable so you might as well be happy.”
Cynthia Nelms, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail July 24, 2009
“I did not so much mind the pessimist who complained that there was so little good. But I was furious, even to slaying, with the pessimist who asked what was the good of good.”
G.K. Chesterton, “Reflections on [The Man Who Was] Thursday” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #8 (July-August 2007)
“'You believe in God only because you were taught to believe in God in childhood.' Is that something like saying that I believe in arithmetic only because I was taught to believe in arithmetic in childhood?”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email Feb. 25, 2019
“They live in a different stratosphere, those two - Lemieux and Gretzky.”
Hockey commentator on Channel 39 in Austin Texas at some point in the late 1980s