Sunday, January 2, 2022
We're so lucky to have those creatures in the world.
— Lily on a squirrel
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Ellen shrewdly advised her husband to exploit the offer, and she urged him to consult with other university presidents, especially Daniel Coit Gilman at Hopkins, as a bit of self-advertising.
— John Milton Cooper, Jr., Woodrow Wilson
Friday, December 31, 2021
Whisky barrel chips.
— Kelly
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell turns to sketch court sketch artist Jane Rosenberg.
— Image caption, Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters, via @tau_au
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
It's like something I would build in The Sims and get bored way too quickly because it would take them too long to get upstairs.
— Lily on a house
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
I have dreams about mosquitoes that don't bite.
— E*
Monday, December 27, 2021
Wilson attributed his lifelong growth primarily to that desire to control: "I want to feel that I'm in control, that I cannot be driven out of it, that I cannot be stopped, that I will be well regarded for being in it, and that entails control, and control means ambition, it means constantly extending one's reach, renewing, extending, innovating.
— Richard Rhodes, Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
Sunday, December 26, 2021
As often with human conflict, what looked from one side like naked aggression looked from the other side like necessary expansion and reform.
— Richard Rhodes, Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Ladies Lounge
— Painted words on door
Friday, December 24, 2021
Ms. Galyna said no white spots.
— Isaac to Mason while he was drawing a picture
Thursday, December 23, 2021
And I believe in things that exist.
— Devin N. Morris, "Books, Community, and Collaboration: An Interview with Devin N. Morris," BAR
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Piles of sticks are just so nice looking. God it's so easy to be an artist.
— Lily
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
I can't think of anyone who has had a better year than the QR code. What a comeback.
— @GraceMulvey1 via @imajs
Monday, December 20, 2021
Her Weibo account in early November of her relationship with Mr. Zhang lasted for all of 20 minutes before Chinese censors erased it. But the news quickly spread online.
— Chris Buckley, "Chinese Tennis Player Denies Sexual Abuse Claim, Raising More Questions," The New York Times
Sunday, December 19, 2021
I can't believe you have three sinks here.
— Isaac
Saturday, December 18, 2021
It was nowhere near as thrilling as the sham battles I had watched as a boy at Van Cortlandt Park.
— William Yale via Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia
Friday, December 17, 2021
It appears this earnest search of insight also had the effect of delaying the special agent's discovery of the one simple truth to be found amid the thicket; no one else knew what was really going on either.
— Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia
Thursday, December 16, 2021
You know what you should do, you should move into one of these neighborhoods and every night you should have someone bring you a big rock, and you should slowly accumulate rocks until you have a huge rock yard.
— Lily
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
He run 'til he come to Lord Daniel's gate, then he rattled at the bells and they rung, he rattled at the bells and they rung
— Doc Watson, "Matty Groves"
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
The Rainbow Swash painted on a 140-foot tall LGN storage tank in Dorchester is the largest copyrighted work of art in the world.
— @onlyinbos