"a hurricane in a pawnshop"

Tom Carson (specifically re Jane Fonda's life, reviewing Fonda's My Life So Far) in The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2005

"There are some people - and I am one of them - who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in William James Pragmatism

In my latest National Post column I say government regulation of Facebook would actually make a bad situation worse, that it's censorship, and that self-control beats state control.

"A fish stinks first from the head."

Adage about leadership, widely quoted and attributed.

"the following are the possible ways for the listener to react to the communication: 1. he may accept the speaker and accept his statement; 2. he may accept the speaker but reject his statement; 3. he may reject the speaker but accept his statement; 4. he may reject the speaker and reject his statement. A person with what [Michigan State U.’s Milton] Rokeach calls a ‘closed mind’ is able to have only reactions (1) and (4)…

S.I. Hayakawa Language in Thought and Action

"I beg you to believe in the most ridiculous of all superstitions: that humanity is at the centre of the universe, the fulfiller or the frustrator of the grandest dreams of God Almighty. If you can believe that and make others believe it, human beings might stop treating each other like garbage."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in a 1970 commencement address according to "Thought du Jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail June 11, 2003

"tough as goat guts"

Former New York Times editor Howell Raines (of his predecessor James Reston), quoted by Robert Fulford in National Post March 26, 2004

"Know Thyself"

The inscription on the temple at Delphi "ascribed to Apollo himself" according to Juvenal