“the decade that taste forgot”
Regarding the 1970s, and attributed to “one journalist” by David P. Deavel in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (9-10/22) (in a piece saying the late Fr. James V. Schall “never succumbed to the 1970s habit too many of his Jesuit confreres had of wearing the intellectual and spiritual (not to mention sartorial) clothing of that decade”.
“This is a barrel loaded with fish, but let’s take a brief shot anyway…”
Charles Gordon in Ottawa Citizen June 8, 2004 [specifically re young people who don’t see politicians who represent their interests but of much wider application IMHO].
“Some people go to finishing school. Maybe I should go to starting school.”
Me July 7, 2001 [not a propos of anything in particular].
“Meanderthal: A person who walks particularly slowly and aimlessly, often toting cellphones and delaying pedestrian or motor traffic.”
“Social Studies” in Globe & Mail January 6, 2006
“It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how you place the blame.”
Oscar Wilde [widely quoted online but I do not have a more precise attribution].
“Outspirational.”
Me on something that absolutely failed to engage my enthusiasm February 2000.
“Sir, it seems that you are no better a judge of human beings than you are a specimen of one.”
Buster Scruggs responding to an insult from a low-life bandit in the film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [https://youtu.be/g_XLQDeYqpE?t=49]
“Some current teenage slang from Singapore: Eye power: Just standing by. ‘Help me move this bed. You stand there using eye power, ah?’”
“Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 21, 2005