Thursday, January 2, 2020
Better set back your clocks.
— Lily after seeing sailors and saying, "You know what that means," implying Fleet Week, and then saying, "It sneaks up on you"
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
In Locke's opinion Dunbar, like Tennyson, was mainly valued because of his ability to make his tradition speak.
— Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
To celebrate firestorms is awful.
— Emily on Christina Aguilera's New Years performance
Monday, December 30, 2019
Two hundred.
— Gift shop attendent on how many "Dual Signed 41: A Portrait of my Father" books were made.
Sunday, December 29, 2019
So, if the design was blunt, simple, even coarse, then it would also be more flexible in the future.
— David Reinfurt, A *New* Program for Graphic Design
Saturday, December 28, 2019
These were common phrases but by reproducing them, they became his.
— David Reinfurt, A *New* Program for Graphic Design
Friday, December 27, 2019
See you at the marriage.
— Mason
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Three redheads, my goodness.
— Aaron out of nowhere
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
That's why hogs have rings.
— Chris
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Last Hanukkah, I had zero patents granted. So I made a special sacrifice to the Hanukkah Goblins. Today, 5 patents granted.
— D*
Monday, December 23, 2019
In the end old age & treachery will outsmart youth & vigor.
— Button in Jack's apartment
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Why is everyone still here?
— Mason
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Mr. Hall said that during the debate, Ms. Hall turned to him and jokingly said she might go buy something for herself instead of contributing to another political campaign.
— Carol Pogash and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, "Democrats Sparred Over a Wine Cave Fund-Raiser. Its Billionaire Owner Isn’t Pleased," The New York Times
Friday, December 20, 2019
The East Side had all the milk. The West Side had all the Cheerios.
— Lily on the Berlin Wall after thinking Klobuchar was Gorbachev
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Most people don't want to work with frat boys.
— College kid investing and managing residential real estate, networking at Pavement
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
The creation of modern nation-states in Europe was a protracted and bloody business. In the Middle Ages, the continent was divided into roughly a thousand political entities... By 1789, there remained only 350 and by 1900 a mere 25.
— Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
While I have no expectation that you will do so, I write this letter to you for the purpose of history.
— Letter from President Donald J. Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
Monday, December 16, 2019
Employees who brough their lunches to work had to suspend the food from strings on the ceiling to guard against rodents and ants.
— Max Boot on OPC offices, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Sunday, December 15, 2019
At a time when regional variations were much greater than they became after the advent of superhighways, television and chain stores.
— Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Saturday, December 14, 2019
So he put down his brushes. That behavior meant he would never again recieve a public comission. But it is also what allowed him to go down in history as an obsessed genius rather than merely a reliable master painter.
— Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci