"I know that you'd rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than consider the possibility that John Kerry would lose Ohio."

“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” [Dan Rather] in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005

"so smooth that he made ice feel like sandpaper."

Description of a criminal by a senior Scotland Yard type in "The Missing Necklace" by Jacques Futrelle (in Alan K. Russell, ed., Rivals of Sherlock Holmes vol. 2).

"it’s not as though I just fell off a turnip truck."

NBA great Bill Russell explaining that although he had not coached in 10 years he had not lost touch with the game because of various basketball-related activities; I did not record when or where I heard him say it

“I sense owls in the swamp. Jag anar ugglor i mossen."

An expression meaning one has a feeling that something is wrong, one of a set of “Idioms from Sweden” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2005)

"Well, we've said it many times — if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun."

“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” (from CBS's Dan Rather) in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005

“12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”

One in a list of “Paraprosdokians : Winston Churchill loved them. They are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, and are frequently humorous” emailed by William Adamson January 25, 2014

"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