Monday, February 26, 2018
In former times when learning was confined to the monks and priests, then it was that the world stood still.
— John D. Rockefeller, via Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Ricky, even when I get a haircut I'm an architect.
— Louis Kahn, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Saturday, February 24, 2018
As homage.
— Mütter Museum guide on books made from the skin of patients whose lives contributed substantially to research
Friday, February 23, 2018
I have a book of castles and I try to pretend that I did not look at this book but everybody reminds me of it and I have to admit that I looked very thoroughly at this book.
— Louis Kahn, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Only a religious man could act with such fearless invention for the sheer need rather than the desire for creation.
— Louis Kahn on Le Corbusier in a letter to Harriet Pattison, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Only because I realize that you don't have to divorce yourself from yourself to gain an objective.
— Letter from Oscar Kahn to Louis Kahn, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
We don't want these to melt… I have a heavy investment in these.
— Sid on two bananas on top of the microwave
Monday, February 19, 2018
He makes custom bags and then he makes duplicates.
— Kelly
Sunday, February 18, 2018
I thought it was 1985.
— Lily on 1984
Saturday, February 17, 2018
It isn't responsible to be killing your neighbor's bees.
— Dennis vanEngelsdorp, 2018 Winter MSBA Meeting
Friday, February 16, 2018
Far above our poor power to add or detract.
— Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address," Lincoln Memorial
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Planet Goff.
— David White
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Did I finish it?
— Lily half asleep after getting to page 8 in a book
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
It's like a birdwatching but someone made the bird.
— Lily on Fashion Week
Monday, February 12, 2018
To try to weave them into something that means something in the language of art history.
— Kehinde Wiley, Obama Portrait Unveiling
Sunday, February 11, 2018
If you look at a circle at an angle is it a perfect ellipse?
— Dillon on lamp
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Based on irony-free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews.
— Opening title, I, Tonya
Friday, February 9, 2018
Know your shit.
— Henry via Milton Glaser
Thursday, February 8, 2018
I'm betwixt and between.
— Larry David, "Foisted!," Curb Your Enthusiasm
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Races are exciting.
— Elon Musk via "Falcon Heavy, in a Roar of Thunder, Carries SpaceX’s Ambition Into Orbit," The New York TImes
