That’s a laundromat.
— Lily
Reunion
Aspen is the Disneyland of environment and design. We are speaking here about universal therapy, about apocalypse in a magic ambiance.
— The French Group, “The Environmental Witch-Hunt,” 1970
Here is Banham the enthusiast, influenced by texts which stimulated the “live study” of architecture: something at which he was to succeed so completely in his own writing.
— Nigel Whiteley, Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future
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— Herbert Bayer, “Addenda and Corrigenda,” World Geo-Graphic Atlas
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— James Tate, “Lewis and Clark Overheard in Conversation”
Now I have two people interested in reading my book.
— Sam
Feeding of birds or other animals from the Unit, terraces or public areas is not permitted.
— Bad lease
Here, barefoot and dressed in sky-blue gym suits, they are put through Swedish exercises, pummeled by Austrian masseurs, then plunged into Finnish steambaths, from which they pass into “recovery rooms” and a library where they may play good music and read the hundred “Great Books.”
— Marquis W. Childs, “The World Of Walter Paepcke,” Horizon, September 1958
High ceilings.
We all like motorcycles to some degree.
— Bob Dylan, San Francisco Press Conference, Dec. 1965
Nobody ever came in and said that the box had so much beauty that he just couldn’t resist buying it.
— Walter Paepcke, speech to the Art Directors Club of Chicago, 1936
Too little to get my head around.
— Nana
The first time we see the sun in months, and it explodes.
— Frank Cotham, Cartoon, The New Yorker
Kangaroo paw.
— Flower shop employee.
Thanks for being a great patient.
— Dr. Neglia
The past is not a root beer.
— Titus Andromedon, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Patience.
— Dr. Neglia
People flying between some European countries, including Germany and Spain, are no longer required to show their passports when crossing boarders. This has led some airlines to allow passengers to board a plane with only a valid ticket, without checking it against any proof of identification.
— Nicholas Kulish, Melissa Eddy, Nicola Clark, “Andreas Lubitz, Germanwings Co-Pilot, Researched Suicide and Cockpit Doors, Prosecutors Say,” The New York Times
To my mother that would seem like a tricky conceptual artwork made to make her feel stupid.
— Michael Dickman