“It just doesn’t work. This idea is off the tee and into the lake.”
Marc Henry, senior research manager for Angus Reid’s Calgary office, quoted in Ottawa Citizen May 15, 1999
"If he’s mad, I hope he’ll bite some of my other generals."
King George II responding to criticism of General James Wolfe, quoted by John Ivison in National Post June 12, 2012
"the mortadella of philosophers. Little globules of rich, fatty thinking, in vast quantities of baloney."
P.J. O'Rourke on Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Noah Richler in National Post December 6, 2001
"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t."
E-mailed by a friend without attribution
“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.”
Emailed by a friend without citation.
"Unpleasantries exchanged"
TSN announcer regarding a little shoving match (no fight resulted) in Toronto Maple Leafs - Minnesota North Stars game November 1, 1993
“the atmosphere of alarm, of being scotched, of being up a tree of incredible height...”
Arnold Bennett in "Lo! ‘Twas a Gala Night!" in Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
"'People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.' – Charles K. Kettering (1876-1958) American Engineer, Inventor"
www.yuni.com/quotes/kettering.html