Friday, January 17, 2014
What I have come to believe is we are at least one of the ways the universe knows itself. That is extraordinary.
— Bill Nye, Los Angeles Daily News
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Peter Singer just said ‘Dingo.’ Brilliant.
— CHV 310 notes
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters “a very good God damn”: that “an artist, a man, a failure” is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any un-understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automation, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.
— e e cummings, six nonlectures
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
It’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now.
— Samantha, Her
Monday, January 13, 2014
The way is shut.
— Male voice outside of McCosh 30
Sunday, January 12, 2014
From her I marvellingly learned that the truest power is gentleness.
— e e cummings, six nonlectures
Saturday, January 11, 2014
And there is a danger in making more of these than what they are.
— Wikipedia, “Waiting for Godot”
Friday, January 10, 2014
And the nighttime was the worst.
— The Head And The Heart, “10,000 Weight in Gold”
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Poetry or carpentry, history or hats.
— Tom Branson, “Episode One,” Downton Abbey
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen.
— “Funny Bear Pole Dancing,” YouTube
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Ikkyu wrote that a solitary tune by a
fisherman is an invaluable treasure I know nothing
I will live for a short time
I catch all I can
I sing while I do it
fisherman is an invaluable treasure I know nothing
I will live for a short time
I catch all I can
I sing while I do it
— Maxon
Monday, January 6, 2014
I’d be sad if your twin died.
— Kristin
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Go learn something.
— NJ transit conductor
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Wimsy-pop.
— Cynthia’s bowling name
Friday, January 3, 2014
That is the thing about nature: there is so much of it.
— Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Today was 54 billionths of a second longer than yesterday.
— Robert Krulwich, “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” Radiolab
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Ulysses.
— Inside Llewyn Davis
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Stephen Hawking talking dirty.
— Cards Against Humanity
Monday, December 30, 2013
And just stay there till it’s over.
— Mary Bronner, “Diagnosis,” Radiolab
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Was a kind of grand experiment: novel and momentous, sometimes heady, other times unsettling, but unlikely to be repeated.
— Michael Barbaro and Kitty Bennett, “Cost of Being Mayor? $650 Million, if He’s Rich,” The New York Times