Saturday, May 11, 2019
See, nobody cares.
— Dennis Nedry, Jurassic Park, via @braininthefrontseat meme
Friday, May 10, 2019
Just as it is a duty to the fancy that the dog fancier subscribe to one or more good dog magazines, so also it is his duty that he purchase books about his breed. Unless enough books can be sold to render a profit to the author and the publisher, no future dog books will be available.
— "Necessity For Dog Books," in a dog book at the The American Kennel Club Library and Archive
Thursday, May 9, 2019
You are a bumble bee with too many legs.
— Lily
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
And though his own values and imagination shaped the books he made, his choice to make those kind of books in the first place turns out in part to have been a response to the new market for them.
— Adam Gopnik, "‘The Cat in the Hat’ and the Man Who Made That," The New York Times
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Pat was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force and served in Korea, France, and Germany.
— Obituary, Perry "Pat" Arthur Thayer, Jr.
Monday, May 6, 2019
If a reader can visualize them for himself, then he may be able to understand things without the writer having to explain them.
— Robert A. Caro, Working
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Kennan's sense of having been exculded as a young man, Arthur Schlesinger speculated, had left him with a love of ritual as an older man: "He believes strongy that the ceremonies of life are important. It's an enduring, interesting characteristic."
— John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Tree rings.
— Akshay
Friday, May 3, 2019
“You don’t say ‘We can win if only we have your support.’ What you say is ‘We’ve already won,’” Mr. Singh said. “By making it seem like you’ve already succeeded, you get the support necessary to succeed.”
— Max Fisher, "What Makes a Coup Succeed? Confidence, Consensus and a Sense of Inevitability," The New York Times
Thursday, May 2, 2019
I wanna see the website... The website is going to fix the machine.
— Armando sarcastically after answering a call from a potential client, later he said "I'm telling you all this becomes life comes fast"
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Facism is not good. I mean I have the talking points.
— Z on talking to punk poets*
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Salty fish as lock of cabinent handles.
— Shutterstock
Monday, April 29, 2019
MTA is Selling a Used Trash Can for $375 as a 'Collectible'
— News ticker headline on cab TV
Sunday, April 28, 2019
"Oh, I'm never going to complete them," Kennan replied, a bit too casually for Link, who devoted his entire career to Wilson's life and papers. "Well, why did you write them?" "I wrote them to establish my credentials as a historian."
— John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Thank you for closing the window. Nobody thinks of that.
— Cab driver
Friday, April 26, 2019
Yea, I'm not as into geopolitics as you would think I would be.
— Lily*
Thursday, April 25, 2019
I'm very good at listening to people that are good at things.
— Joe Rogan, "Joe Rogan Experience #1283 - Russell Brand"
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, there is no mistake on the lake anymore.
— News announcer, "The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86"
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
There are a lot of hands in this world.
— Lily countering Sid's point that something is valuable because it is handmade
Monday, April 22, 2019
With no constraints he tended to ramble.
— John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life