She dismisses an implausible claim as “like a clock that strikes 13. It throws into question all that has gone before it and all that follows.”
Arianna Huffington in National Review April 5, 1999
"It’s time to paint your butt white and run with the antelope. Stop arguing and do as you’re told."
James Langton’s guide to expressions British leaders might encounter from George W. Bush, in the Sunday Telegraph, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen Dec. 17 2000
"an open mind is salutary, but one whose hinge is off?"
"H. Smith" [according to my detailed but now sadly incomprehensible note as to its origin]
"a hurricane in a pawnshop"
Tom Carson (specifically re Jane Fonda's life, reviewing Fonda's My Life So Far) in The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2005
"Energizer Bunny, arrested, charged with battery."
"Top 20 Internet Tag Lines" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
"Veni, Vidi, Visa: I came, I saw, I shopped."
"Top 20 Internet Tag Lines" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."
Noelie Altito