Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Maybe people don't change radically, but the surface of things does.
— Norman Rockwell, My Adventures as an Illustrator
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
As Story observed, "What is the grave to Us, but a thin barrier dividing Time from Eternity."
— Melissa Banta, The Art of Commemoration and America's First Rural Cemetery
Monday, November 9, 2020
My ideal audience is often like my brother or my dad, who like, these are people who will not go to an art museum if it costs one dollar, but if you show them a piece of art that they like, they will respond to it.
— Brian McMullen
Sunday, November 8, 2020
The living thing and the outside world are interdependent. Life could not, in Just's mind, be "only a struggle against the surroundings from which life came,"... Kropotkin's theory, with its concept of harmony, was in Just's view preferable to Darwin's idea of the struggle for existence.
— Kenneth R. Manning, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Saturday, November 7, 2020
The refusal of Democrats and Republicans to cooperate with one another is not due to some mysterious force beyond our control.
It’s a decision. It’s a choice we make.
It’s a decision. It’s a choice we make.
— Joe Biden, President-Elect Acceptance Speech
Friday, November 6, 2020
"He's a very nice boy," a woman in East Dedham said of Lodge. "Very friendly. You'd never know he's running for anything." ... contrasted with Ted Kennedy... who never let anyone doubt he was running for something.
— Neal Gabler, Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour
Thursday, November 5, 2020
He called Ted to tell him that 45 minutes was too long. If Jack could give the State of the Union address in twenty-three minutes, Ted could describe his African experience in twenty-five.
— Neal Gabler, Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Green Bay's absentee ballot results are delayed becasue one of the vote-counting machines ran out of in. An election official had to return to City Hall to get more.
— Reid Epstein, The New York Times
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
If you think of it, the companies are competing for our attention, if they find out that each of us becoming a celebrity and having a million people we get to reach, if that’s the currency of the thing that gets us to come back to get more attention, then they’re competing at who can give us that biggest fame lottery hit faster.
— Tristan Harris, "Joe Rogan Experience #1558 - Tristan Harris"
Monday, November 2, 2020
Watching surgery today feels like going to the opera.
— Lily in a text
Sunday, November 1, 2020
I can see no rat race from here.
— David on Whitcomb Summit
Saturday, October 31, 2020
O yea its halloween
Should I put out earplugs for the children
Should I put out earplugs for the children
— Lily in a text
Friday, October 30, 2020
People don't joke about things that aren't true.
— David
Thursday, October 29, 2020
"That because you've couched your intention in a joke, that you can disavow it when people come asking."
"That's right. That's exactly right. So you create this ambiguity so there's no way for you to mean what you really mean ever."
"That's right. That's exactly right. So you create this ambiguity so there's no way for you to mean what you really mean ever."
— Feels Good Man
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
I think they're diamonds.
— David (paraphrased) on what was causing optical illustion on building balconies
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
I can't get a drink in Harlan County
I can't get a drink and I don't know why
I can't get a drink and I don't know why
— Loudon Wainwright III, "Harlan County"
Monday, October 26, 2020
You go in so young, that's where you get your beliefs.
— Head mover, a former Army Ranger, (paraphrased) when I asked if he had any beliefs that had changed before vs after his military experience
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Turned one of our sons into the chess girl cus his chess skills were already high
— Lily in a text on The Sims after watching The Queen's Gambit
Saturday, October 24, 2020
At this time, we cut the people's meat for them so much, that we do too much of the audience's work.
— Dave Chappelle, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
Friday, October 23, 2020
I wouldn't have it any other way.
— Bill Murray responding to "It must be nice to be you," On the Rocks