Saturday, April 5, 2014
I think that’s a fair assessment.
— Donald Rumsfeld, The Unknown Known
Friday, April 4, 2014
And my last stroke, and I’m heading into the grave, I wonder what color it will be?
— George W. Bush, “An Ex-President, Brush in Hand, Captures His Fellow Leaders,” The New York Times
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Negative progress, figuring out that what we think doesn’t really work, and that is progress of a kind.
— Martha Himmelfarb
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
A few feet away from us, 27 people had died.
— Mara Gordon, “Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie,” The New York Times
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
For all we know, if you want to see what it’s like inside a black hole, just look around you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, “A Sky Full of Ghosts,” Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Monday, March 31, 2014
Even apocryphal stories get remembered in history.
— Danny
Sunday, March 30, 2014
They are poles apart in feeling. But carving is a slow business, and if one works for too long a stretch upon a carving which satisfies only one side of one’s nature, one becomes restive, one tends to become absorbed by projects which have not yet been started, and one’s crowing anxiety to be done with the thing one is working on will show in some of the forms. But if there is something with a quite different content on the go at the same time there is an interplay of one’s interests.
— Henry Moore, “Sculpture in the Open Air”
Saturday, March 29, 2014
It’s not our brain that can give us the answer any more. Isn’t meditation the state where answers are given to your most important questions because your mind has achieved a standstill?
— Frederick Kiesler, “Kiesler’s Pursuit of an Idea”
Friday, March 28, 2014
Never be jealous in this life Zero.
— Gustave H, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Thursday, March 27, 2014
No one had to transmit it, so no one had a chance to change it.
— Martha Himmelfarb
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
I continue to be much more concerned, when it comes to our security, with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.
— Barack Obama
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Let the breakfast be what the breakfast was.
— Gaya
Monday, March 24, 2014
In the back of your tooth
— The White Stripes, “The Denial Twist”
Sunday, March 23, 2014
At first I thought it was going to be like mean girls and then it just really escalated.
— Man at intermission of Heathers: The Musical
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Spanning the generations.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Standing Up in the Milky Way," Cosmos
Friday, March 21, 2014
New images of the same location, with resolution down to ten square feet, ever single day.
— Sean Patrick Farrell, “A Constellation of Satellites," The New York Times
Thursday, March 20, 2014
A foot in a shoe, under a table, projected and magnified ten times, becomes a surprising fact that you have never noticed before.
— Fernand Léger, “The New Realism”
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
I don’t want to over think it, but I’m over thinking it.
— PPD
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Think before you do anything stupid.
— Woman on plane
Monday, March 17, 2014
Confirming inflation would mean that the universe we see, extending 14 billion light-years in space with its hundreds of billions of galaxies, is only an infinitesimal patch in a larger cosmos whose extent, architecture and fate are unknowable.
— Dennis Overbye, “Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang," The New York Times