“Hollywood’s the kind of place where they stick a knife in your back and then have you arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.”
Philip Marlow, quoted on USA Network Feb. 19, 1989
“He took a Nez approach. As in the opposite of Zen.”
One of mine, from November 20, 2005
“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.”
Ann Landers, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 8, 2009
“I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.”
Fred Allen, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)
“Why Japan Is Building Its Own Version of ChatGPT /Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture”
Headline and deck on article in Scientific American September 15, 2023
“H.G. Wells’ description of the town of Bromstead – ‘a dull, useless boiling up of human activities, an immense clustering of futilities.’”
William H. Whyte The Organization Man
“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].