Tuesday, November 5, 2019
I shall never forget the mixture of relief and amusement I felt when I thoroughly grasped the fact that while they would heroically submit to anarchy rather than have Tweedledum, yet if I would call it Tweedledee they would accept it with rapture.
— Theodore Roosevelt via Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex
Monday, November 4, 2019
I BELIEVED if I paid the price in full "once"...I could talk about it forever. In virtually every speech I give around North America I explain the "Do It Once and Talk About It Forever" philosophy.
— SR in Facebook post*
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Like that of a bee smacking against many surfaces before buzzing into the open air.
— Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex
Saturday, November 2, 2019
We're serving the ladies first... A Marriott tradition.
— Waiter at Newhouse event
Friday, November 1, 2019
Carnegie was courting the ultimate danger for a public fugure: he was very close to becoming a parody of himself.
— David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Is the lowest I've ever sold a pair of lenses. You should feel lucky.
— Roman of Romanelli Optix
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Four score and ten.
— Grandpa Jack
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Lovely.
— Jason
Monday, October 28, 2019
Mr. Trump described the video footage he watched from the White House Situation Room as “something really amazing to see.” The experience, the president said, was “as though you were watching a movie.”
— Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, "Watching the Raid Was Like a Movie, the President Said. Except There Was No Live Audio," The New York Times
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Potentially parallel lines.
— Jason
Saturday, October 26, 2019
As a benefit of membership, Council members may choose to receive the artist’s edition published during their membership year.
— "The Library Council," moma.org
Friday, October 25, 2019
I don't talk about money because once something comes into Princeton it has no value.
— J*
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The Washington Post and The New York Times will no longer be delivered to the White House, officials said.
— New York Times headline
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
My answer is yes but my judgment is no.
— Brian Cox, "The Great Society"
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
It's funny, we'll never see each other again. Isn't that funny.
— Guy giving directions to a family on 24th and Broadway
Monday, October 21, 2019
I'm definitely my favorite artist.
— Henry
Sunday, October 20, 2019
The third and last danger against which I shall warn you is one which has wrecked many a fair craft which started well and gave promise of a prosperous voyage. It is the perilous habit of indorsing—all the more dangerous, inasmuch as it assails one generally in the garb of friendship.
— Andrew Carnegie via David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie
Saturday, October 19, 2019
But never boring.
— David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie
Friday, October 18, 2019
Inside his Rough Rider hat: several extra pairs of specticales, sewn into the lining.
— Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Thursday, October 17, 2019
As the Harper's Weekly man remarked, the Roosevelt Commissionership "was never in the least dull."
— Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
