Phone.
— MK
I thought it might interest you, as a ski enthusiast and lover of beautiful things (cf. Joella).
— Walter Paepcke, Letter to Herbert Bayer, May 22, 1945.
Come out, your friends are here!
— Sheila to Sleepy (cat)
When a bottle of bubbly is not festive enough, the Champagne Sabre will certainly get the party started. Aim towards where the vertical seam of the bottle meets the top lip, and strike away from the base. The pressure inside the bottle automatically ensures a clean, shards cut. Made of stainless steel.
— Item Tag, “NEW, Champagne Sabre, Karim Rashid, 2013,″ MOMA Store
Sandy!
— Christopher, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”
Bayer, despite his frequent melancholy, was the one artist who caused Paepcke no discomfort in the shared company of businessmen.
— James Sloan Allen, The Romance of Commerce and Culture
One thing I don’t need is furniture. I live alone in an 8 room house.
— Old woman at Skillman Furniture
A book of this nature inevitably contains misspellings, incorrections and discrepancies.
— Herbert Bayer, World Geo-Graphic Atlas
I like the message that you are conveying with this series of pictures. We should devour books like we devour our food. With salt and Tabasco sauce.
— Kathleen
project for exhibition pavilion at an industrial fair 1924. toothpaste for sale inside.
— Herbert Bayer, herbert bayer: painter, designer, architect
How do they keep that clean? If I were a bird I’d shit that place up!
— Lily
Just as a visiting player is about to shoot a free throw, two students pull apart two big black curtains to reveal a new five-second act in a continuing theater of the absurd.
— Justin Wolfers, “How Arizona State Reinvented Free-Throw Distraction,” The New York Times
I love that you say you have empathy for caviar.
— Nathan Carter
What’s the ambition?
— Joe Scanlan
All supposedly ventures of capitalists in the thick of thinking about profit margins and returns on investment, their buildings do have an obvious bottom-line logic-they can be occupied and rented-the landscape expanses can only be looked at. They seemingly do not square, at least not in a straightforward financial sort of way.
— Louise A. Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism
If you ask for criticism, you get it. If you don’t there is a chance everyone will be too busy to worry about it.
— Charles Eames via Beatriz Colomina, “Enclosed by Images: The Eameses’ Multimedia Architecture”
I’m a pro.
— Public Saftey Officer after completing metal puzzle
We're going to Philly.
— Gerry
If a star and its intervening lens are slightly out of line, the distant light can appear as arcs. If they are exactly lined up, the more distant star can appear as a halo known as an Einstein ring, or as evenly separated images — the Einstein Cross. Astronomers have learned how to use entire galaxies and galaxy clusters as telescopes to see fainter objects beyond them that would otherwise be lost in the fog of time.
— Dennis Overbye, “Astronomers Watch a Supernova and See Reruns," The New York Times
According to the nonpartisan Public Interest Declassification Board, a single intelligence agency is producing a petabyte of classified data every 18 months, or the equivalent of 20 million four-drawer file cabinets. The National Archives estimates that, without new technology to accelerate the process, that information would take two million employees a year to review for declassification. Instead, there are just 41 archivists working in College Park, Md., to review records from across the entire federal government — one page at a time.
— Matthew Connelly and Richard H. Immerman, “What Hillary Clinton’s Emails Really Reveal,” The New York Times