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
Friday, October 26, 2018
A piano with three giant keys.
— Lily's great sculpture idea
Thursday, October 25, 2018
It's like riding a bike I havn't learned yet.
— Lily
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Mao simply collapsed the distinction between reading about stirring events and actually living through cataclysm.
— Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, on Mao "when we look at history we adore the times of [war] when dramas happen one after another... which makes reading about them great fun... Human nature loves sudden swift changes."
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Genealogy is a contact sport.
— Curtis Rogers, "Genetic Genealogy," 60 Minutes
Monday, October 22, 2018
The world will little note, nor long remember.
— Abe Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address," Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum
Sunday, October 21, 2018
I didn't know I'd be good at it, but it just felt right you know?
— Lily on Birdly®
