| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 15851 |
| QUOTATION: | Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robertson Davies (b. 1913), Canadian novelist, journalist. What’s Bred in the Bone, pt. 6 (1985). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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