Sunday, August 18, 2013
Mo muffins, Mo problems.
— Becca
Saturday, August 17, 2013
P: Does family believe that when an object drops, it falls to the earth, or does it float away into the sky? Unless they believe, is there no more physical science, no more gravity?
— Ben Dolnick, At The Bottom of Everything
Friday, August 16, 2013
He asked me whether plants were immortal.
— Ben Dolnick, At The Bottom of Everything
Thursday, August 15, 2013
And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.
— Backlit female jazz singer in park by Brooklyn Museum, “Route 66”
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Will I see ya again?
— George, The Tree
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
You’ve gotta be starving for it.
— Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, “Crane Your Neck”
Monday, August 12, 2013
We’re conquistadors. I’m Vasco da Gama, and you’re some other Mexican.
— Roger Sterling, “A Tale of Two Cities,” Mad Men
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Like some rhino hunters I know.
— Ernest Hemingway, Midnight in Paris
Saturday, August 10, 2013
As long as it’s contained.
— President Snow, The Hunger Games
Friday, August 9, 2013
But I never let it get me down.
— Matisyahu, “One Day”
Thursday, August 8, 2013
keya keya sorya douse ne,
keya keya sorya douse dame da.
keya keya sorya douse dame da.
— Kishi Bashi, “Bright Whites”
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
An obsession with righteousness (leading inevitably to self-righteousness) is the normal human condition. It is a feature of our evolutionary design, not a bug or error that crept into minds that would otherwise be objective and rational.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
If I were a thousand years younger.
— Man on the subway
Monday, August 5, 2013
The lake on the left is a little low.
Route nine is the Breckenridge road.
Route nine is the Breckenridge road.
— Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, “Sarah In The Summer”
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema.
— Black Eyed Peas & Justin Timberlake, “Where Is The Love?”
Saturday, August 3, 2013
This is a good life.
— Akshay
Friday, August 2, 2013
Sounds like a nice dream.
— Romina, The Place Beyond the Pines
Thursday, August 1, 2013
The desire to cultivate a sense of the transcendent may be the defining human characteristic.
— Karen Armstrong, The Case For God
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist and philosopher-king of quantum theory, once said that a great truth is a statement whose opposite is also a great truth.
— Dennis Overbye, “A Quantum of Solace: Timeless Questions About the Universe,” The New York Times
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Getting into the swing.
— Kings of Convenience, “I’d Rather Dance With You”