Thursday, March 19, 2020
It was beyond even Bell's imagination that people would one day use his invention just to chat.
— Edmund Morris, Edison
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
In 1972 the molecular biologist Gunther Stent famously raised the question of "prematurity" in science—discoveries or theories too much in advance of contemporary knowledge to be explored seriously until years later.
— Edmund Morris, Edison
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
You tell the story of the current war you're in by talking about previous wars.
— Steve Bannon, American Dharma
Monday, March 16, 2020
Then to laughter, he added Edison's favorite saying, "All things come to him who hustles while he waits."
— Edmund Morris, Edison
Sunday, March 15, 2020
My best quarantine discovery so far is that you can rearrange the letters of "David Foster Wallace" to spell "Sir Dadlot Fecalwave"
— @mcmubria
Saturday, March 14, 2020
It's so cool I just discovered that late in life, that you can whisper and it sounds like screaming. Who would have thought.
— Lily
Friday, March 13, 2020
An urgent call came from Henry Ford, asking for the great man's last breath to be preserved in a test tube.
— Edmund Morris, Edison
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Ben Denzer is an artist who is very into number play so pricing is also part of the artwork.
— Whitney Shop item description
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
It was the only sandwich that had mortadella.
— Jamie on Zingerman's sandwich #26
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Whimsy is his business.
— Fritz Swanson
Monday, March 9, 2020
Princeton president: University will move to virtual instruction following spring break.
— Planet Princeton headline shared on Facebook
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Getting between places is New York to me.
— Lily
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Printing... Is the Preservation of All Arts.
— Isaiah Thomas quote in Book Arts Studio
Friday, March 6, 2020
Well if I get a hundred I'll be happy as a clam.
— Man talking to himself while printing in the Book Arts Studio
Thursday, March 5, 2020
In the breadbox.
— Jamie
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
They say money's got the most germs on it. But those are good germs. Rich germs.
— Whitney employee to money transportation (Brinks?) employee
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Decalf mocha what's good!
— Employee at Gregorys right as I walk in the door
Monday, March 2, 2020
Whole Wheat Banana Bread (Regular Slice)
Salted Peanut Butter Cookie (Single)
Salted Peanut Butter Cookie (Single)
— Sid's Square receipt from Ovenly Vanderbilt
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Or perhaps Kennedy had given the order simply becasue brevity was worth more at the moment than all the political benefits he could imagine from more complicated alternatives.
— Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Idealists would say afterward that King's gifts made him the obvious choice. Realists would scoff at this, saying that King was not very well known, and that his cheif asset was his lack of debts or enemies. Cynics would say that the established preachers stepped back fro King only because they saw more blame and danger ahead than glory.
— Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63