Monday, March 25, 2013
Too much time spent on nothing.
— First Aid Kit, “When I Grow Up”
Sunday, March 24, 2013
National Geographic has this theory that the last century, discovery was basically finding things, and in this century, discover is basically making things.
— Stewart Brand, “The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?,” TED Talk
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Her hopes and visions were so intricate that she no longer saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed or remembered that she was waiting for anything.
— James Joyce, “The Boarding House”
Friday, March 22, 2013
Mies van der Rohe, confident of being in possession of an objective truth, relegated all high-flown utopias to the realm of illusion.
— Fritz Neumeyer, Nexus of the Modern: The New Architecture in Berlin
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Evidence of anomalous features in the CMB is more serious than previously thought, suggesting that something fundamental may be missing from the standard framework.
— Jan Tauber, Planck Project Scientist at ESA, “Simple But Challenging: The Universe According to Planck”
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
It’s the difference in people that makes the world go round.
— Ru
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The form of the type, as important as it was in production, had a very limited value on the market. As a market sign, it was not economically visible, not on its own, not without a legal trademark.
— Frederic Schwartz, “Commodity Signs: Peter Behrens, the AEG, and the Trademark”
Monday, March 18, 2013
Often when I thought of this I could make no answer or only a very foolish and halting one upon which he used to smile and nod his head twice or thrice.
— James Joyce, “The Sisters”
Sunday, March 17, 2013
He knew that he would have to speak a great deal, to invent and to amuse.
— James Joyce, “Two Gallants”
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Durring this conversation the vulture had been calmly listening, letting its eye rove between me and the gentleman.
— Franz Kafka, “The Vulture”
Friday, March 15, 2013
And plinko in my style.
— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Can’t Hold Us - feat. Ray Dalton”
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The future is a crosswalk.
— Judy
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
I stride along and my tempo is the tempo of all my side of the street, of the whole street, of the whole quarter.
— Franz Kafka, “The Way Home”
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
It’s good enough for me.
— Jolie Holland, “Old Fashioned Morphine"
Monday, March 11, 2013
I wanted to touch the rim.
— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Wing$”
Sunday, March 10, 2013
And that moment lasts the length of a breath.
— Francis Underwood, House of Cards
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Auditing makes such good sense that I have to try hard not to wish I were doing it myself.
— Prof Alan Ryan
Friday, March 8, 2013
Because you have dreamed, properly, of someone who is better than I am.
— Charles Warnke, “You Should Date An Illiterate Girl”
Thursday, March 7, 2013
That always exceeds our representations of it.
— Lucien Castaing-Taylor, “Plumbing the Deep,” The New York Times
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The amazing thing again is that most of what I’m telling you is true.
— Adam Burrows