Thursday, January 29, 2015
When I spoke to Mr. Schniewind Saturday about inviting Giedion to write an introduction he was really disturbed. Schniewind said he would be very frank. Much to my surprise he said Giedion is a “phony”.
— Egbert Jacobson, March 12, 1945
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
I could get you a stool.
— Librarian
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Does it already have postage?
— USPS guy
Monday, January 26, 2015
If life is money, how much money is your life?
— Bully in the Hallway, “Life Is Money”
Sunday, January 25, 2015
That’s a nice bird, man!
— Mike Shiner, Birdman
Saturday, January 24, 2015
I can’t wait to be home and put some Vaseline on my thumbs.
— Woman behind me on the plane
Friday, January 23, 2015
Oh well.
— Bobbi, Wild
Thursday, January 22, 2015
He humorously observed that if a manufacturer of corrugated boxes needed design to improve business, then every business needed design.
— Hunter Middleton and Alexander Ebin, Impressions from the Design Conference held at Aspen, Colorado, June 28 through July 1, 1951
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Can you imagine living in those countries?
— Woman on North Mill Street after American Sniper
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Rock by rock.
— Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Selma
Monday, January 19, 2015
I like to think I did.
— Augustus Elijah Underwood, House of Cards
Sunday, January 18, 2015
I’m hoping they have a baked potato! Please!
— Emily
Saturday, January 17, 2015
I had to get out of there kinda fast. I left like seven whole boxes of Michael Jordan sneakers and my car… I don’t sleep. I’m not like a normal person… Better to be honest with people, even if it’s not what they want to hear… I got a great tie collection… Even if you’re not working your dream job, it’s important to try to be as good as you can… The key is to be honest… You don’t have to be an asshole to get things done… I kept a diary from 1982 to 2008.
— Kevin, AAA Taxi
Friday, January 16, 2015
Out to Michigan up to Maine.
— Martin Sexton, “Diner”
Thursday, January 15, 2015
The sunshine in.
— The 5th Dimension, “Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
You are on tonight.
— Pam
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
I just like it as furniture.
— Deana Lawson
Monday, January 12, 2015
C'mon!
— Jimmy Fallon, “Jimmy Fallon Blew a Chance to Date Nicole Kidman," The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Sunday, January 11, 2015
While the “corporate style” was expanding into all areas, so was the company physically.
— Susan Black, The First Fifty Years 1926-1976
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Because the corporate concept admits of contradiction and difference while still remaining operative in the world, it is not only a cultural problem but also potentially the very solution to that problem.
— John Harwood, “The Corporation As Concept,” Art in America
