Tuesday, February 25, 2014
We have to stop thinking in absolutes.
— Girl in precept
Monday, February 24, 2014
And the Syrian Electronic Army, which American intelligence officials suspect is actually Iranian.
— David E. Sanger, “Syria War Stirs New U.S. Debate on Cyberattacks," The New York Times
Sunday, February 23, 2014
But after two or three generations this interest fades.
— Walter Benjamin, “Little History of Photography”
Saturday, February 22, 2014
The victim of what must have been one of the very first car accidents.
— James Salzman, Drinking Water: A History
Friday, February 21, 2014
Sometimes
I
Have doubts
About
The Magna Carta
And Pumpernickel
And The Little Dipper
I
Have doubts
About
The Magna Carta
And Pumpernickel
And The Little Dipper
— Byrd, “I Don’t Want Any More Seahorses”
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Whatever it is, it’s temporary.
— Daniel Heyman
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Nostalgia for authentic.
— Ryan Harper
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Being a burden is OK.
— Eric Gregory
Monday, February 17, 2014
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
Sunday, February 16, 2014
If it’s old then it must be a church.
— Man on SEPTA
Saturday, February 15, 2014
I’ll never see you again.
— A man at Trenton Transit Center
Friday, February 14, 2014
There was no part he could ever play in Roark’s presence. Besides, he did not feel like playing a part now.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Are we all absolutists, just a matter of where we draw the line sometimes?… Maybe we are all just consequentialists, it just depends on where we draw the line.
— Eric Gregory
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Because to feel this vulnerable means I’m alive.
— Brené Brown, “The Power of Vulnerability,” TED
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
If only those angels had stayed where they belong.
— Martha Himmelfarb
Monday, February 10, 2014
And you’re real life persons for me, and I like that.
— AnneMarie Luijendijk
Sunday, February 9, 2014
The perfect glare.
— Grizzly Bear, “While You Wait for the Others”
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Yea I’m gonna stick with that, it’s still gonna be good no mater what.
— Dave Parnell, Burn
Friday, February 7, 2014
Wolves into delicate poodles.
— John Hurt, More Than Honey
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Why disavow any of that, one never should.
— Ethan Cohen (on things he didn't intend but others ascribe meaning to)