“The only shadow he cast was by artificial light, and he looked it.”
Mike Hammer’s internal monologue in Mickey Spillane My Gun is Quick [regarding the pimp Cobbie Bennett]
“as LBJ’s Liz Carpenter was fond of citing, ‘Resume Speed, Tx.’”
William Safire Before the Fall [on the subject of small towns].
“Carlotta was the kind of town where they spelled trouble t-r-u-b-i-l and if you tried to correct them they killed you.”
Rigby Reardon [played by Steve Martin] in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
“John Diefenbaker once compared the Trudeau government to a cemetery run by its occupants.”
John Ivison in National Post October 28, 2003 [obviously the reference is to Pierre Trudeau]
“’Earl looks like he’s deep in thought. Is that right? Are you deep in thought, dear?’ ‘Huh? Oh, I was just thinking about those little red things in fruitcakes and wondering what the heck they’re made of.’ ‘No, apparently he’s shallow in thought, as usual.’”
Opal (mostly to a friend) and Earl in “Pickles” cartoon in Ottawa Citizen December 18, 2004
“If you were any more shallow you’d bulge.”
One of mine from November 2004 – and at one point I used it about Justin Trudeau in a column.
“There’s no need to repeat yourself. I ignored you just fine the first time. Why mess with perfection?”
Encountered randomly on August 20, 2023 on one of those online collections of graduation quotations [at https://www.heraldweekly.com/hilarious-senior-yearbook-quotes-that-cannot-be-unseen/23?xcmg=1].
“If I kept my mouth shut, I wouldn’t be here.”
The caption beneath a stuffed speckled brown trout mounted on the wall in the office of Robert S. Bennett, a premier Washington lawyer and fixer, according to Bennett’s Washington Post obituary reprinted in the National Post September 18, 2023