Saturday, January 20, 2018
Franklin had reached an age when he no longer fretted about squandering his time.
— Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Friday, January 19, 2018
Go Speed Racer!
— Person handing out pamphlets outside subway turnstiles as I ran by to catch train
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Among Franklin's cards was his fame.
— Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
You waiting for a cab?
— Guy paid to keep homeless people out of 42nd and 9th Citi ATM lobby from midnight to 9am
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Never tell the machine it's for me.
— Sid on duplicator machine
Monday, January 15, 2018
Absolute time.
— Misreading of Lily from China's misspelling
Sunday, January 14, 2018
You're not a real bookbinder?
— Nice lady on last day of her bookbinding I class after I described Uriel as "a real bookbinder." After her question I said no and Uriel laughed and said no.
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