Monday, April 29, 2019
MTA is Selling a Used Trash Can for $375 as a 'Collectible'
— News ticker headline on cab TV
Sunday, April 28, 2019
"Oh, I'm never going to complete them," Kennan replied, a bit too casually for Link, who devoted his entire career to Wilson's life and papers. "Well, why did you write them?" "I wrote them to establish my credentials as a historian."
— John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Thank you for closing the window. Nobody thinks of that.
— Cab driver
Friday, April 26, 2019
Yea, I'm not as into geopolitics as you would think I would be.
— Lily*
Thursday, April 25, 2019
I'm very good at listening to people that are good at things.
— Joe Rogan, "Joe Rogan Experience #1283 - Russell Brand"
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, there is no mistake on the lake anymore.
— News announcer, "The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86"
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
There are a lot of hands in this world.
— Lily countering Sid's point that something is valuable because it is handmade
Monday, April 22, 2019
With no constraints he tended to ramble.
— John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Wow Connor, someone just let out a shriek for you.
— ASSSSCAT improviser to Connor Ratliff
Saturday, April 20, 2019
I had a weird dream. First of all, it was an apartment without walls, so we had to make metaphorical walls by narrating everything we did.
— Lily
Friday, April 19, 2019
Survival of the fastest.
— Sid grabbing a plate to get the first piece of cake
Thursday, April 18, 2019
They said that putting it on public view was part of a strategy to sell the specimen to a rich investor. “Mr. Detrich has tried to capitalize on the museum’s good faith by using the exhibition and scientific attention as selling points” on eBay, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology said in a letter last week.
— Laura M. Holson, "He Listed a T. Rex Fossil on eBay for $2.95 Million. Scientists Weren’t Thrilled," The New York Times
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
We turn these pumpkins into Cinderellas overnight.
— Hank, "Season 2 Episode 3," Barry
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
We have to have our wits about us.
— Lily on us needing to eat something before we tour an apartment
Monday, April 15, 2019
Which Pete Buttigieg 2020 campaign logo "E" are you?
— Brian McMullen, @mcmubria
Sunday, April 14, 2019
He continued, “What no one seems able to understand is why some narratives are chosen, and others aren’t.”
— Alexander Burns, "Pete Buttigieg’s Focus: Storytelling First. Policy Details Later," The New York Times
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Kennan's Foreign Service colleagues suspected him, one of them recalled, of using his illnesses to get out of boring jobs and back in the center of things. Certainly he did not stop working—he simply shifted the nature of it.
— John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
Friday, April 12, 2019
It’s possible that some biological change was to blame. But Dr. Basner noted that Mr. Kelly also faced a lot of demands back on Earth, including a busy schedule of television interviews and public speaking.
And on an unconscious level, he may no longer have been pushing himself. “I mean, he basically retired the moment he hit the ground, and so perhaps he just wasn’t as motivated any longer,” Dr. Basner said.
And on an unconscious level, he may no longer have been pushing himself. “I mean, he basically retired the moment he hit the ground, and so perhaps he just wasn’t as motivated any longer,” Dr. Basner said.
— Carl Zimmer, "Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same," The New York Times
Thursday, April 11, 2019
So conspicuously in love with one another.
— Sid
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
The key to the greatness of novelists, though, had always been their limitations: "They knew one thing—one country, at most—and were saturated with it."
— John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life