Thursday, April 19, 2018
So he wrote numbers with a Sharpie on the hermit crab shells so he could keep track of them.
— Zoe Chace, "642: The Impossible Dream," This American Life
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
It was about time for somebody else to swim for the family.
— George Marshall, Truman
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
They don't slip it in on the matzah. Do they?
— Sid on sugar
Monday, April 16, 2018
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
— Roosevelt to Churchill, Truman
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Coffee beans from Yemen with cream from updstate New York and Pennsylvania.
— Paraphrased comment from audience member
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Who's anxious to be right.
— David McCullough, Truman
Friday, April 13, 2018
Famished and sleep deprived. That's basically it.
— IT Alex
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Dear Ben,
We understand you want to put the paper book inside very much.
We understand you want to put the paper book inside very much.
— Sarah, SHENZHEN CREATIVE DISPLAY PRODUCTS FACTORY
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
When you were just super horny in your dorm room and you accidentally brought about the end of modern democracy.
— Zuckerberg meme
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
He said "I like being alone."
— Sid on Chernow not getting involved with another woman after his wife died
Monday, April 9, 2018
"Fact is, I like roads," he would say.
— David McCullough, Truman
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Critiques only work coming from a place of love.
— First year student (Suzanna Zak) on positive culture
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Did they put it on after the graffiti?
— Lily noticing interesting Little Debbie truck graphic
Friday, April 6, 2018
Stories about autism where you don't mention autism, but you still know it's about autism.
— Kid with autism at CBA auction
Thursday, April 5, 2018
And describe the tongue of the woodpecker.
— Walter Isaacson on Leonardo's to do lists, Charlie Rose
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
I think if artists are — the ones I find interesting make up their own tools and make up their own procedures.
— Richard Serra, Charlie Rose
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
— Sid reciting Rudyard Kipling's "If—"
Monday, April 2, 2018
And they were proudly prolific.
— David McCullough, Truman
Sunday, April 1, 2018
"If many remedies are prescribed for an illness,” Anton Chekhov once wrote, “you may be certain that the illness has no cure.”
— Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
Saturday, March 31, 2018
(To me) What they building? (To workers inside) What are you buildling? Whatever it is, it's coming out nice!
— Man leaning into former I & N Barber Shop (150 E. Broadway) as it becomes a pizza place