“The way some people find fault, you’d think there was a reward.”
On the bulletin board at the Nepean Sportsplex arts section November 4, 2017, unsourced
“He wore… clothes that looked like what starts fires in old warehouses.”
Spider Robinson Time Travellers Strictly Cash
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
“Jonathan Winters (1925-), American comedian and actor” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 28, 2011
“Cell phones are little chunks of evil.”
Roy Darcus in Globe & Mail July 21, 2000
“the humor of unleavened dough, the charm of a bag of cement, and the tact of a Mack Sennett rubber mallet.”
Frank Capra The Name Above the Title [the specific reference is to a Colonel in the Signal Corps that Capra was at one point obliged to deal with]
The German ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Baron von Tschirschky “was not much liked in Vienna: he was a stiff north German of the sort who agreed with Bismarck that ‘the Bavarian is a cross between the Austrian and homo sapiens’.”
Norman Stone “Archduke Franz Ferdinand Survives Sarajevo” in Andrew Roberts, ed., What Might Have Been
“I think you’re the opposite of a paranoid. I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.”
Woody Allen, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail June 2, 2003 [and yes, we’re all feeling squeamish about Allen now but it’s still a good line].
“Miss Management”
A tag applied by MP Deb Grey to Minister Jane Stewart over the Human Resources Development Canada scandal , quoted by Susan Riley in Ottawa Citizen November 21, 2004