Monday, February 17, 2020
The Union League Club had a room wallpapered with stock certificates that were rendered worthless by the crash. (The were peeled off by itchy fingers when the market recovered.)
— Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Unprecedented is never that unprecedented. 32 years ago (almost to the day), Bob Silman worked with Civitas and the neighborhood to fight to take 12 stories off a too tall development. At one point, when asked how one could possibly remove 12 stories, Bob replied, 'gingerly.'
— @oppenheimer.nat
Saturday, February 15, 2020
He hastily told him to present it to Wilson type on ordinary paper, lest Bryan and the Progressives think the House of Morgan was dropping off a prearranged plan.
— Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Friday, February 14, 2020
She had become rather deaf and used an enormous ear trumpet.
— Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Thursday, February 13, 2020
He said his nose "was part of the American buisness structure."
— Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Yang then joked, “Maybe everyone will see what happened in Iowa, and be like, ‘Our jobs are safe.'” It is not exactly clear what he meant, but he frequently warned about technology automation replacing workers.
— Kristina Wong, "Andrew Yang Overheard on Iowa Caucus Disaster: ‘That Whole Thing Was So Weird’," Breitbart
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
After several years as an abstract painter, I realized that the language was so cryptic and personal that the themes I wanted to address in my work, like colonized sexuality, were being missed.
— Kent Monkman, "The Canadian Cree Artist Remixing History in the Met’s Great Hall," Vulture
Monday, February 10, 2020
To the point where they approximate a biologists brain looking at an image.
— Anne Carpenter, "2019 BioImage Informatics" YouTube video
Sunday, February 9, 2020
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
— Milan Kundera via Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Sitting Bull rode in parades, greeted visitors in his lodge, and sat impassively on his horse at the beginning of each performance. Each appearance stole the show. He detested this part of his duties, but loved new experiences such as his discovery of oyster stew.
— Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Friday, February 7, 2020
Out of narrative comes policy.
— Tom Steyer
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Custom Knits for Film and TV, Body Positivity and Inclusivity, In Memory of Arnold H. Aronson
— Email subject line from
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
In another, he suggested she pay two cents a word for an interview that would last two weeks.
— Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Agnostic to any clinical data.
— Meeting at Broad talking about machine learning
Monday, February 3, 2020
You can't write that down because I never said it.
— Lily on something she said
Sunday, February 2, 2020
It's a good set for a Godzilla movie. It's like pleanty of stuff to knock down but you're not that attached to it.
— Lily on Boston
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Life is fun, embrace it and enjoy every day.
— Andy to Apryl on FB
Friday, January 31, 2020
Don't read into it, just read it.
— Henry on his paintings
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Signed my name in the giant book.
— Text from David
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
If you make something really nice then people want to take care of it.
— David paraphrasing a Herzog and De Meuron philosophy
