Thursday, November 15, 2018
No composite images.
— Slide*
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Last year I was 23 and this year I turned 73. 50 years, just gone in a minute.
— Customer to bank teller at 75th and Lex
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Back to the future?... Another day at the office... Heigh ho heigh ho back to work I go... This was the summer I never went swimming. We had 15 weekends and it always rained. I call it the summer that never was... It's a good day for a bottle of wine a basket of fruit and stay in bed.
— Oyster Rides taxi driver on way back from Coral after printing McGlue
Monday, November 12, 2018
That's what art is. Peanut butter and jelly. You just gotta mix up the bread. Put it on rice cakes, it's art! Put it on saltines, it's art!
— Lily
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Andy Warhold sucks. Lets go.
— Person in the Whitney Shop
Saturday, November 10, 2018
I just came into some big seed money.
— Lily using words from Succession but referring to bird seed
Friday, November 9, 2018
His bodyguards proposed using dynamite to silence the frogs, which were croaking away happily in a reedy pond. The plan was not carried out, because it was assumed that Mao's stay at Xibaipo was going to be short.
— Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
Thursday, November 8, 2018
We are down to 3 books left…
— Lauri
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
There's pros. And I wanna be one of em.
— Ray, Mid90s
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
“Instead of being headquartered in one place and moving to a second headquarters, Amazon is going to be, and be thought of as, everywhere.... The word ‘headquarters’ is a nontechnical, nonlegal term, but it plays well in the press to talk like this,” Mr. O’Kelley said.
— David Streitfeld, "Was Amazon’s Headquarters Contest a Bait-and-Switch? Critics Say Yes," The New York Times
Monday, November 5, 2018
They probably have so many fences.
— Lily on National Rent-A-Fence*
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Mao introduced a special "Social Relationship" form: "Tell everyone to write down every single social relationship of any kind [our italics]."
— Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
Saturday, November 3, 2018
And if you don't ask you don't get.
— Henry
Friday, November 2, 2018
It's very convinient to have a tap in the apartment
— Kelly*
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Nice forms, but give me some content!
— Henry on Yama-pro Tani-ori by Tomoko Yamashita
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Knowing the labor that went into it, if the idea can’t hold up the effort.
— Martha
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Gotta catch a nap while it's hot.
— Lily in a text
Monday, October 29, 2018
Your menus would go on into the menu collection, and your name would be stripped from them, and you wouldn't live on into the future.
— Thomas the librarian in NYPL's Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Room
Sunday, October 28, 2018
David and Cecil Rosenthal, brothers in their 50s...“They were what we call ‘shomerim,’ people who guard the religion even for the rest of us who don’t go all the time,” said Mr. Solomon, who is related to the brothers by marriage.
— Simon Romero, Jennifer Medina and Timothy Williams, "Tree of Life Synagogue Victims Remembered as Guardians of Their Faith," The New York Times
Saturday, October 27, 2018
He was, as Stalin was later to say to the Yugoslavs, insubordinate, but a winner.
— Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story