"A specialist is someone who does everything else worse."

"U.S. violinist Ruggiero Ricci" quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Oct. 13, 2006.

“But things aren’t all puppies and hugs either.”

Letter from Bonnie Tompkins (a “bar server” writing about the Ottawa antismoking bylaw) in Ottawa Citizen Dec. 27, 2001

"a hotbed of cold feet."

George Will in National Post October 9, 2001 (a complicated metaphor applying to U.S. Senate Democrats over Iraq in 1991 what was said of "All Souls College, Oxford at the time of the 1956 Suez crisis")

“the words itched more than they tickled.”

Larry Hill in Maclean’s August 27, 2001

"Include me out."

Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 #3 (December 2000)

"What President Bush will need is an agenda that catches fire without blowing up."

National Review Dec. 18, 2000 [if the comment had a specified author I failed to write it down]

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