Friday, May 31, 2013
Now it understood what the man sought in the woman, and it knew that he suffered because he never would attain that sense of completion he sought.
— Paul Bowles, “The Circular Valley”
Thursday, May 30, 2013
I’m fairly certain that, after a shortish time, the person through whom a poem was written is no more entitled to make revisions than any other reader.
— Paul Muldoon, Paul Muldoon Poems 1968-1998
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
He remembered a paper he’d once given at a conference on urban design: It is not from the château that we set upon our adventure, gentlemen, but from the shack.
— Italo Calvino, The Queen’s Necklace
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The term skeuomorph (pronounced skyoo-uh-morf) refers to an element in an object’s design that’s no longer functionally necessary but has been retained anyway for ornamental purposes.
— Lev Grossman, “Flatland: Should the virtual world try to look like the real one?,” TIME: June 3, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
The book I remember most clearly was A Wrinkle in Time.
— Dan Brown, TIME: May 27, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
I just washed my hands
Then I went for my dinner.
— The Proclaimers, “Over And Done With”
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Why would you do that?
— Joss Whedon, “How Shakespeare Saved ‘Avengers,’ The New York Times
Friday, May 24, 2013
It doesn’t preclude a love of things and design.
— Liz Diller
Thursday, May 23, 2013
And what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
— Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Open the kingdom.
— Philip Glass Ensemble, “Open The Kingdom (Liquid Days, Part II)”
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The most bizarre thing I think I’ve ever seen.
— Zach Sobiech, “My Last Days”
Monday, May 20, 2013
She got sunset on her breath now.
— Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Came out by the same door where in I went.
— Edward FitzGerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Well, its still a hell of a quote.
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek Into Darkness
Friday, May 17, 2013
It’s a hell of a thing, ain’t it. Hell of a thing.
— Mud, Mud
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Keep learning the salsa.
— Jorge
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Money.
— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Cant Hold Us - feat. Ray Dalton”
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Over the rope.
— Kristin
Monday, May 13, 2013
I gave my oopsy, daisy, now you’ve got the crazy.
Crazy with the books, googley-goo where’s the gravy.
So one two, unbuckle my, um shoe.
Yabba doo, hippity-hoo, crack a brew.
— Das EFX, “The Want EFX”
Sunday, May 12, 2013
I’d rather have my honeycomb.
— Das EFX, “The Want EFX”
