Sunday, May 3, 2020
It would be interesting to look at locations of the American popular imagination, as seen in movies and TV, mapped against regional tax breaks for the film industry.
— BLDGBLOG
Saturday, May 2, 2020
The first signature in his book is that of President Collidge on August 6, 1924 and the book contains the signatures of other heads of government in the world although for the larger part the signatures are those of business men in the various contries. The book was signed by many American Diplomatic and Consular Officers.
— W. Roderick Dorsey, American Consul General, Letter to The Secretary of State, Genoa, Italy, June 5, 1933
Friday, May 1, 2020
Like it or not, we live in a market-driven society, and science is part of that market.
— Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Thursday, April 30, 2020
That goose is on borrowed time.
— Lily
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
By pushcart, by ricksha, by pack mule, by rail and by ship, but mostly on my back. It has 2,896 pages and it weights 58 pounds.
— Joseph Mikulec, "His Autograph Load Is Too Much For Him," The New York Times
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Gey gave his lab staff careful instructinos for growing GeGe, a line of cancer cells taken from his pancreas. He hoped that his cells, like Henrietta's, would become immortal.
— Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Monday, April 27, 2020
Although some people couldn't see her uniqueness, something that had haunted Frances all her life, others appreciated her almost immediately. Both Neufeld and Breiseth found Frances so facinating that they kept diaries, taking note of things she said and did.
— Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Frances reminded him that people who are out of sight slip out of mind.
— Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins
Saturday, April 25, 2020
She found that some officials would enact rules on which they had only tepid interest if they foresaw the prospect of getting a blue ribbon before their peers for their accomplishments.
— Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins
Friday, April 24, 2020
This is an idea I took from an Ellsworth Kelly documentary actually, he said he discovered he could play with the same elements again and again and again and you can find endless solutions.
— Alvaro
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Frances had made a point of cultivating Al Smith's mother. Now she did the same with Roosevelt's.
— Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
It's funny how modesty and total bullshit come off exactly the same.
— Lily
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Cigar-makers tended to be well educated and skillful at controlling their working conditions, even to the point of demanding that readers be engaged to recite great works for literature to them as they worked.
— Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins
Monday, April 20, 2020
He required the various companies to exchange horses so that each had a single color.
— T. J. Stiles, Custer's Trials
Sunday, April 19, 2020
But there is nothing like an ending to reveal the incompleteness of things.
— T. J. Stiles, Custer's Trials
Saturday, April 18, 2020
I'm like Tom Riddle, except chicken.
— Lily to herself while preparing to microwave chicken
Friday, April 17, 2020
Custer analyzed the United States Military Academy and calcuated his place—more precisely, his audience. He would perform not for the officers, but for the society of boys.
— T. J. Stiles, Custer's Trials
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Like John Hancock's signing of the Declaration of Independence, it is the one fact about the man that lives in American memory.
— T. J. Stiles, Custer's Trials
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
There is a natural tendency in dark times to say, “Well, something good will come out of this after it’s over.” I appreciate this as a practical, adaptable response to adversity. I also think it’s generally misplaced and overused. It is not necessarily the case that good follows bad, particularly when it comes to institutions and cultures. Sometimes societies simply languish or decline. It’s not like the Roman Empire made a comeback.
— Andrew Yang, Humanity Forward email "Friends in High Places"
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Japanese typically have at least two seals: a custom-made one that is registered with the government and used for formal documents, and another that is used in more informal situations. People often keep one at the entrance of their home for deliveries, another in the desk at their office and a third secreted away in their house for using on bank documents.
— Ben Dooley and Makiko Inoue, "Japan Needs to Telework. Its Paper-Pushing Offices Make That Hard," The New York Times
