Sunday, February 10, 2013
The deepest problems of modern life flow from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society, against the weight of the historical heritage and the external culture and technique of life.
— Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”
Saturday, February 9, 2013
I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Friday, February 8, 2013
Your knowledge (the knowledge you may have of Parisian topography) struggles with your perception, and in a sense, that is what intelligence is: to reconstitute, to make memory and sensation cooperate so as to produce in your mind a simulacrum of Paris.
— Roland Barthes, The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Ben is back.
— Martha
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I would argue that artifice, openly expressed, is the only true “authenticity” an artist can lay claim to.
— Michael Chabon, “Wes Anderson’s Worlds,” The New York Review of Books
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
That in the more important concerns of their lives the animals are in great part guided by knowledge that they individually have not gathered from experience.
— Douglas Spalding, Instinct: With Original Observations on Young Animals
Monday, February 4, 2013
All biology is either animal behavior or plumbing.
— James Gould
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Wear your mother’s vest.
— David
Saturday, February 2, 2013
That lifes a dream.
— Elle King, “Good to Be a Man”
Friday, February 1, 2013
A decent human being.
— Keith
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Other signs of accumulating electrostatic charge include small rocks jumping about.
— Wilderness and Rescue Medicine
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell.
— Bob Dylan, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The billions of microbes with which we share our existence.
— Wilderness and Rescue Medicine
Monday, January 28, 2013
If you took out all your arteries and veins and laid them end to end you would be dead.
— Keith
Sunday, January 27, 2013
I’m the best app you got this week.
— Daz
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Better tell them while they’re here, ‘cause
They may just run away from you.
— Imagine Dragons, “On Top of the World”
Friday, January 25, 2013
You know what’s more American, Benjamin Franklin, that’s what’s more American.
— Pat Sr., Silver Linings Playbook
Thursday, January 24, 2013
I think it needs a renovation.
— Liz Diller
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
For it is rather the machines that have helped us to understand how birds fly and fish swim.
— Sir James Gray, “How Fishes Swim,” Vertebrates Structures and Functions: Readings From Scientific American
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Poems don’t always have to rhyme, you know.
— Sam Shakusky, Moonrise Kingdom
