Sunday, January 27, 2019
The designer of letters... participates just as creatively in shaping the style of his time as the architect or poet.
— Jan Tschichold, Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering
Saturday, January 26, 2019
*Girl to friend putting on black press-on nails
"Do you like press-on?"
"No, but AOC tweeted last week about how she was putting on black press-on nails on a train from DC to New York. So I went and bought some. It's the first time I understood how influencers make money."
— @ocasio2018 reposting @overheardnewyork
Friday, January 25, 2019
As Stone puts it in one of the many rules he lives by, “He who speaks first, loses.”
— Jeffrey Toobin, "The Dirty Trickster," The New Yorker
Thursday, January 24, 2019
At the time I started, there were already seven biographies of Johnson in print.
— Robert Caro, "The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives," The New Yorker, read by Grover Gardner
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Officially sold out
— Email subject line
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
You can fool the fans--but not the players.
— John Cage and Sister Corita Kent, "10 Rules for Students and Teachers"
Monday, January 21, 2019
Just a little mule to be put out in the shed with some microwave carrots.
— Lily
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Kapton.
— Ken
Saturday, January 19, 2019
No one showed up, he was traumatized and I never forgot it.
— Man with an Australian accent and a dog describing one of his brother's birthday parties to a woman with a dog in Runyon Canyon Park
Friday, January 18, 2019
Americans Eat 554 Million Jack in the Box Tacos a Year, and No One Knows Why
— The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, January 17, 2019
"Ask a toad what is beauty... He will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back." (Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1794).
— Steven Heller, "Cult of the Ugly"
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Wow!
— Overlaid text on image of Fallingwater's beam curved around a tree
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
I'd like to have some fun in life.
— William Barr responding to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's "You might want to get out of that habit... you may have other things to look at," on doing legal citations, "Attorney General Confirmation Hearing," C-SPAN
Monday, January 14, 2019
Addington often said there was no point sacrificing presidental power for "public relations," because critics would find something else to complain about.
— Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Sunday, January 13, 2019
He doesn't play video games.
— Woman on her son who has made the models at Jan's Hobby Shop since he was 5
Saturday, January 12, 2019
The World's Largest Illuminated Light Peg Mural
— Item description at Hammacher Schlemmer
Friday, January 11, 2019
Cheney had the savvy to call a halt to operations at the government printing office, not many aids would have thought of it. Cheney knew regulations have no legal force until they are published in the Federal Register. Some of Clinton's orders, signed in his closing hours as president, never made it.
— Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Thursday, January 10, 2019
No amount of money can get you a better Coke.
— Andy Warhol via @whitneymuseum
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
venmo me $5 and i will comment "worm woman" on any photo you choose
— @scariest_bug_ever
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
It's very hard to describe something and get someone into it.
— Sid on the difficulty of description and the ease of images
