"Art is anything you can get away with."

- Marshall McLuhan

a way to fight Mafia extortion in Sicily

Link here.

"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."
- Earl Long

a burger place in Cambridge, Ontario

Article here.

The U.K.'s Michelin Starred pub

www.harwoodarms.com

"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."
- Mark Twain

"If you're not funny by the age of ten you'll never be funny."
- Steve Allen

a place to have your teeth serviced in Cambridge

Unlike other clinics the Dentist is with you 95% of the time.

Dr. Hardeep Asi, BHSC, DMD

295 Jamieson Parkway

Cambridge, Ontario

519 260 6600

www.dentistryonjamieson.com

the richest physician in the world

Story here.

"If they won't go to the box office you can't stop them."
- Samuel Goldwyn

on wearing a dark suit everyday

"The suit is the same, but the films are different."
- Alfred Hitchcock 

"We all have skeletons in our closet; we're judged by how we manage them."
- Dr. Oz

a place in Cambridge to buy, sell, fix cars

Professional Steer & Brake

Tom Zylstra

Owner

1728 King Street East, Cambridge, ON N3H 3R8

519 653 4191

"Your safety is our concern"

the oldest pizzeria in the town that invented pizza

Website here.

routine

"20 to 22 hours per day they relax."

spirit

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

- Jane Austen

General in Chief

"The harder the war the sooner the peace."
- William Tecumseh Sherman

the greatest CFL player

"I get up at 6 a.m. and paddle surf."
- Doug Flutie

"The brain accounts for a quarter of our energy consumption but just 2% of our body mass."
- Jeff lliff

a place to eat and drink in Philadelphia

nil desperandum

"The stock market has forecasted 9 of the last 5 recessions."
- Paul Samuelson

"The artistic life is a long, lonely suicide."
- Tennessee Williams

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

- Maya Angelou

"Defeat is advance payment for victory"
- Winston Churchill

acting advice

"Don't act."
- Samuel Beckett

routine

"We didn't work that hard. It was a school schedule: 10am to 3pm."
- Carol Burnett

A Christian perspective

"25% of people will dislike you no matter what. 25% will dislike you but could be persuaded to like you. 25% will like you but could be persuaded to dislike you. 25% will like you unconditionally no matter what."
- Joel Osteen

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle

purported deathbed quip

"I know now that I know nothing."
- Socrates

noblesse oblige

"To be successful you have to have self doubt."
- Barbara Streisand 

"Data can help you make a good design great, but it will never make a bad design good."
- Margaret Gould Stewart

FDR's blood pressure before he died was 240/130. A healthy range is 115/75. 

"Among all arts, film is the most important for us."
- Vladimir Lenin as quoted by Roman Polanski in Seduced and Abandoned

"I'm not ashamed to call myself a redesigner."
- Tommy Hilfiger

The tiny, oil-rich nation of Qatar has purchased a Paul Cézanne painting, The Card Players, for more than $250 million. The deal, in a single stroke, sets the highest price ever paid for a work of art and upends the modern art market. Article here.

nature enthusiast

"My car should look like a beetle."
- Adolph Hitler

on wine

"It's a beverage. You either like it or you don't."
- Costco wine buyer

"Everything in the universe dances, has rhythm."
- Maya Angelou

"Meditation is concentration, really."
- HRH Prince Charles

"If you're not making mistakes you're not trying."
- Tim Cook, Apple CEO

165,000 corks = happiness

"What's life without whimsy?"
- John Pollack

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
- JFK

things in common

"My ultimate goal is to invent something as simple as the Venn Diagram."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

the most expensive smell in the world

... on Bordeaux wine.

"Do as much as you can artistically always, because sometimes it stops."
- Brian Eno to Reggie Watts

Steve Buscemi has a New York reality series

a sign in Robin Williams' kitchen

"Forget What You Want, Look At What You Have."

Article here.

"We must believe that we were gifted for something."
- Madame Curie

Rick Perry's brand of eyeglasses

www.lafont.com

massacre the idle, the unfit

I "appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. Deadly by all means, but humane not cruel."
- George Bernard Shaw, 1934

"Architecture is frozen music; music is liquid architecture."
- Quincy Jones

"In order to gain anything you must first lose everything."
- Buddha

"One can only be angry with those he respects."
- Richard Nixon

Wabi-sabi

The acceptance of imperfection.

Image source here.

A man drinking wine from his soup bowl in France

Video here.

A resource for established and aspiring stand-up comics here.

"As an alcoholic you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
- Robin Williams

Image source here.