Saturday, January 13, 2018
Franklin became an apostle of being—and, just as important, of appearing to be—industrious. Even after he became successful, he made a show of personally carting the rolls of paper he bought in a wheelbarrow down the street to his shop, rather than having a hired hand do it.
— Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Friday, January 12, 2018
You want to hear a lesson of bad parenting? My parents took me to the Sistine Chapel and no one told me to look up.
— Lily
Thursday, January 11, 2018
I can. I can do that. I like doing that. I mean not every artist wants to do that. Some do that. I mean. Um. I do. I, I've always liked that.
— David Hockney making hand gestures for big and small painting, "The Art of Seeing: David Hockney," YouTube
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
People aren’t buying knick knacks anymore.
— Darren
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
As Charlie Warzel wrote on BuzzFeed, “For Wolff’s book, the truth seems almost a secondary concern to what really matters: engagement.”
— David Brooks, "The Decline of Anti-Trumpism," The New York Times
Monday, January 8, 2018
I wanted to build a resort, but I didn't want to copy others and make just another theme park. I wanted to build one that has cultural depth to it. I came up with the idea at 3 in the morning.
— Shaojun Su, "Local Chinese Government Backs Titanic Replica," NPR Morning Edition
Sunday, January 7, 2018
I think I want to open a zoo. Zoo futures are up.
— Lily
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Finish one.
— Uriel
Friday, January 5, 2018
You live around here?
— Patricio
Thursday, January 4, 2018
He announced to aids that he was going to write "a trashy piece of pulp"… a reportedly sex filled novel titled From Palms to Pines.
— Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Kushner, going concave, retreated from the discussion.
— Michael Wolff, excerpt from Fire and Fury in NYMag
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Why exactly?
— Sean Astin as Bob the Brain, Stranger Things 2
Monday, January 1, 2018
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
— Emerson via The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Horses, like man and wife,
Shifting their weight from foot to
Foot, and gazing into the future.
— Paul Muldoon, "Why Brownlee Left," Selected Poems 1968-2014
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Actually I'm just tapping my steak.
— Mason
Friday, December 29, 2017
We're going to put it in the trash.
— Mason on a book cover he didn't think was necessary
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Yas queen.
— Jack Black, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Halibut chowder.
— Andy
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
I'll do the palenta… (later) YA YAs!
— Mason at YaYa's
Monday, December 25, 2017
Steamed milk.
— Mason
