Thursday, November 7, 2013
This thing’s built like a brick outhouse!
— John Hunter
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Sun would go down as they rode into town.
— Mulberry Soul, “Lincoln Town”
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
When it is raining in Oxford Street, the architecture is no more important than the rain.
— Peter Cook, Living Arts 2
Monday, November 4, 2013
There’s no point in having an intolerant one, it doesn’t really do any good.
— Julia Wise
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Alone!?
— Pistachio
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Here. And here. And everywhere.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Dark Universe
Friday, November 1, 2013
Probably it would be truer, though not much more comforting, to say that they subscribe to the basic heresy that whatever exists has artistic significance. It is a heresy which expresses itself in various ways; like every menacing heresy it contains a grain of truth, but it seems to me just as much a killer for all art above a nursery level, for all architecture above the shed.
— Opinion, “Thoughts in progress: The New Brutalism,” Architectural Design 27
Thursday, October 31, 2013
As has become de rigueur for such occasions, the scientists took pride and hope in how clearly they did not see anything.
— Dennis Overbye, “Dark Matter Experiment Has Detected Nothing, Researchers Say Proudly," The New York Times
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Stuck is stuck.
— GHB
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
If we merely believe, but do not understand, why killing adult human beings such as ourselves is wrong, how could we conceivably show that abortion is either immoral or permissible?
— Don Marquis, “Why Abortion is Immoral”
Monday, October 28, 2013
My whole life is printed books like that.
— Guy at PHL restaurant
Sunday, October 27, 2013
You’re welcome.
— Neil Ronk, Historian at Christ Church
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Indeed, one of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
— Virginia Woolf, Hours In A Library
Friday, October 25, 2013
The bending has been engineered out off our perceptual range.
— Axel Kilian
Thursday, October 24, 2013
And growing up everyone always does.
— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Otherside"
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
You’re lucky to live sad moments.
— Louis C.K., “Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones,” Conan
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Thinking causes complications. I’m sorry, but it’s part of that process that we go through of trying to figure out what’s out there in the world, what really happened. This is about truth. Absolute truth. And the pursuit of truth properly considered shouldn’t stop short of insanity.
— Errol Morris, “The Fact of the Matter,” Radiolab
Monday, October 21, 2013
So much guesswork.
— Holden Karnofsky
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Everything is possible if it is well done.
— Le Corbusier, “The Core as a Meeting Place of the Arts”
Saturday, October 19, 2013
When did you shout last time you were so happy?
— Aleksander Gamme, “Bliss,” Radiolab