“He is one of the undersung linebackers.”
Announcer on ABC Monday Night Football December 1, 1986
“we might say, like the Frenchman asked if he had lunched on the boat, ‘au contraire.’”
G.K. Chesterton, “Reflections on Thursday” (looking back at writing The Man Who Was Thursday) reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #8 (July-August, 2007)
“Chicago’s going to want to pour on all the throttles here.”
Play-by-play announcer on ESPN February 1987
“Anybody who knows everything should be told a thing or two.”
Franklin P. Jones (emailed by a friend without citation; it's widely quoted online).
“Marge: Sweetie, you could still go to McGill. The Harvard of Canada./ Lisa: Anything that's the Something of the Something isn't really the Anything of Anything”
The Simpsons “MoneyBART” episode, according to www.simpsonseh.com, a website about the Simpsons and Canada (the setup is that Lisa is worried that she’s not doing enough extracurricular stuff to get into an Ivy League university).
“You’ve been spending too much time with him lately.”
Comment by one colleague about another in March 2002 that prompted this addition to my "That doesn't narrow the field much" file of insults (the title inspired by one of the greatest putdowns in movie history, from Clint Eastwood's character in The Eiger Sanction)
“I know what you’re thinking. You’ll never find a man quite like me.”
Some character (I didn’t record which) on the TV show “Family Matters” on TBS June 6, 1996
“Liquid sunshine”
What his mother always called pouring rain, according to Bill Clinton while presiding over the dedication of his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas in a downpour, quoted in Maclean’s November 29, 2004