"Now there’s a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!"

Groucho Marx

"My usual plan in a new city is to wander, blend in and observe. In Hanoi, I might as well have been 50 lb. of bratwurst trying to blend into a kennel."

Steve Burgess in Maclean’s Feb. 28 2005

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it is unfamiliar territory.”

Paul Fix

"Spoon me with a gag"

OK, I did say this, on reading a January 2007 news story about a woman in Sydney, Australia who laughed so hard while eating spaghetti that she swallowed a teaspoon (she was OK after medical intervention)

"You couldn’t get me there with a box of candy or a ton of dynamite."

Then-premier of Saskatchewan Roy Romanow on running for federal office, quoted in Maclean’s June 12, 1995

"He fell so hard for her, he even lost his balance at the bank."

Kirk Kirkpatrick, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995

"Frankly, we don't know whether to run, to watch, or to bark at the moon."

Dan Rather, quoted in "Rather’s Familiar Quotations” in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005

“Pope [a minor-league thug]: 'My superior wants to see you.' Jonathan Hemlock [played by Clint Eastwood]: 'Well, that doesn't limit the field much!'”

The Eiger Sanction, quoted on The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com)