Monday, January 27, 2020
“If I am out of town,” he told The New York Times in 2014, “I will try to have meetings wherever I am. Luckily, there are a lot of Taco Bells.”
— Neil Genzlinger, "Jason Polan, Fast-Drawing Artist of the Offbeat, Dies at 37," The New York Times
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Was threatening to become little more than an exquisite corpse, an archived artifact seen only by White people in a mid-Manhattan museum.
— Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Eternal God... Unite our senators in their striving to do your will. Lord, you have been our help in ages past. You are our hope for the years to come. We trust the power of your prevailling providence to bring this imeachment trial to the concusion you desire.
— Senate Chaplain Rear Adm. Barry Black (Ret.), Senate Impeachment Trial, Day 6
Friday, January 24, 2020
A precedent set in 1966 by former Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, who grew thirsty while delivering a lengthy speech, allows senators to sip milk on the floor.
— Catie Edmondson, "Senators Battle a Persistent Impeachment Foe: Their Own Restlessness," The New York Times
Thursday, January 23, 2020
I need this not to end in yet another show business failure.
— @connorratliff, Instagram Stories post about "Dead Eyes"
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
All photographs are posed.
— Errol Morris, "Lecture: Harvard Book Store"
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
It just gets better and better as we improve sample size.
— Michael Talkowski, talk at Broad "Genomic Approaches for Rare Variations Studies in Human Disease"
Monday, January 20, 2020
Where millions of Amazon customers use Amazon cameras to watch Amazon contractors deliver Amazon packages.
— John Herrman, "Who’s Watching Your Porch?," The New York Times
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Locke had to write himself into the history of the present by creating a bolder, conversation-changing voice, and make others read him to understand themselves.
— Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Saturday, January 18, 2020
“I’ve come to the conclusion that because information constantly increases, there’s never going to be privacy,” Mr. Scalzo said.
— Kashmir Hill, "The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It," The New York Times
Friday, January 17, 2020
The old lady, does she drive?
— JS*
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Gets the same train every time.
— The Kinks, "A Well Respected Man"
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Wow! A USPS branch!!
— Sid note on a package
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Some people develop their own Presidential libraries without experiencing a prior need to be President.
— John McPhee, "Tabula Rasa: Volume One," The New Yorker
Monday, January 13, 2020
Reading them and cataloguing them was something to do, and do, and do. It beat dying. It was a project meant not to end.
— John McPhee, "Tabula Rasa: Volume One," The New Yorker
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Some argued that the insistence on burial reflected the self-interest of the clergy, who historically owned the burial grounds.
— Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Visual Arts Press: as the design studio for the School of Visual Arts, the Press produces the College's printed publications, websites, enviornmental graphics, and promotional products.
— Orientation Video, "History of The School of Visual Arts"
Friday, January 10, 2020
With scale you get clarity.
— Todd Golub
Thursday, January 9, 2020
The individual is not so much the patient, it's the family.
— Dr. Robert Green, talk at Broad "The Path to Preventetive Genomics: Empirical Evidence and Personal Stories from a Panel of Patients Who Recieved Unanticipated Genomic Results."
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Eventually settled down to quiet resignation.
— Remy Evard, talk at Broad "Changing Science at Novartis, Changing Companies at Flagship"