`She’s over 35 years old and at that age a woman doesn’t arouse those kinds of feelings.’ -Miquel Angel Bermudez, boss of the Colombian national sports association, protesting a sexual harassment charge by a female employee. In Colombia, sexual harassment is not a crime.
SONGWRITER/SINGER JACKSON BROWNE ON THE UNIVERSALITY OF HIS WORK: `To me, half of each song I write exists in the listener. I wouldn’t want to endanger that by making them so specifically about me.’
`It returns my soul.’
-Misha Shparber, a Jewish Russian immigrant, on the lively Jewish neighborhood around Devon Avenue and California Street.
`Chicago’s neighborhoods are a source of our city’s strength because they define our quality of life.’
-Mayor Richard M. Daley.
`We need to stop these thugs.’
–Lucien Blackwell (D.Pa.), on passing the Brady bill, which requires a five-day waiting period with background check for handgun purchases.
`Ask a kid.’
-George Yanos, associate director of the computer center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, on how to learn to operate personal computers.
`He listens to people. He’s responsive to what they say. He’s smart, quick on his feet. And he has better hair than I do.’
-“Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, on why President Clinton would make a good talk-show host.
`Wow!’
-Sox’s Frank Thomas, on learning that he got all 28 first-place votes, making him the eighth player selected unanimously for the American League’s MVP Award.
`The `Big Hurt’ isn’t likely to be done in by the big head.’
-Bob Verdi, on Frank Thomas’s honor as American League MVP.
`My children always come first.’
-School crossing guard Ruth Clark, on her young charges at 66th Street and Loomis Boulevard.
`A child is made up of two parents. It’s devastating to tell a child part of them is no good.’
-Joanne Webber, program manager of “Caring, Coping and Children,” a mandatory program for divorcing parents in Du Page County.
`Splurge only on the little stuff.’
-Tightwad columnist Humberto Cruz, on the key to co-existent splurging and saving.
