Tuesday, March 24, 2020
"I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not the bad luck of the early worm," he wrote an impetuous supporter in late 1919.
— Jean Edward Smith, FDR
Monday, March 23, 2020
I know when you started the 2019-20 academic year, you could not possibly have imagined we would find ourselves in the midst of one of the greatest challenges the world has faced since World War II.
— David Rhodes email to SVA's graduating class
Sunday, March 22, 2020
In the West we have this idea that if something is historic we should be able to look at it.
— Joe Rogan, "Joe Rogan Experience #1442 - Shannon O'Loughlin"
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Come and get it.
— Lily waiting for 'likes' after sending something
Friday, March 20, 2020
As always when diverging into a new course of experiment, he saw himself at the glorious end of it, rather than the fraught beginning.
— Edmund Morris, Edison
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
