Saturday, October 24, 2015
It seems like everyone could use a pile of gravel every once in a while.
— Paul
Friday, October 23, 2015
iPads are cool but i miss giving my orders to a real person. The waiter helping us (adrian) was warm, energetic and made me feel attended to and connected. It is really a pleasure to have a nice experience with a person in a space full of bright screens, long waits and rushed travelers. Thank you to adrian for making my meal so precisely what i needed.
— One of many positive reviews for Adrian at Caps Oasis
Thursday, October 22, 2015
It revealed my bedrock sense of reality as fiction, a mythology specific to a particular time and place, in a way I wouldn’t forget.
— Peter Korn, Why We Make Things And Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
He’s Phi Bet'
— Sidney after I grabbed a knife from the neighbor table and loudly halved a frozen peach in the Isle of Capris
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
To maintain the stories that constitute one’s understanding of oneself in the world is a constant struggle.
— Peter Korn, Why We Make Things And Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
Monday, October 19, 2015
The craftsman is forced to come to terms with the physical properties of materials, the mechanical properties of tools, and the real capacity and limits of his own dexterity, discipline and imagination.
— Peter Korn, Why We Make Things And Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
Sunday, October 18, 2015
The story ends with these words: “Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and the systems to one another and to a whole, that by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
— Jorge Luis Borges, An Introduction to American Literature
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Thus in order to learn the art of prose he read, forgot, and reconstructed the essays of Addison.
— Jorge Luis Borges, An Introduction to American Literature
Friday, October 16, 2015
Were you generous with your thoughts?
— Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, TC Open House
Thursday, October 15, 2015
It looks like a pool of vomit from far away.
— Editor
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
It’s ok, don’t worry bro.
— Man on subway who was in a verbal argument with another man but cooled off after 30 minutes of being stuck in a non-moving train.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Sid the 87 year old kid.
— Sidney
Monday, October 12, 2015
It won’t take 4 minutes to get there.
— Helen on going to our meeting
Sunday, October 11, 2015
I feel like it’s the most efficient way to get altitude.
— Lily on stairs
Saturday, October 10, 2015
I wouldn’t have nothing if I didn’t have you.
— Monsters Inc. credits
Friday, October 9, 2015
The phrase was given new popularity in 1937: in a well publicized case, violinist David Rubinoff was accused of inviting a young woman to his hotel room to view some French etchings, but instead seducing her.
— “"Etchings" euphemism,” Etching, Wikipedia
Thursday, October 8, 2015
*Gasp,* I would dance for that building.
— Lily on Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Nice job.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Just whistle… Catch me on the old horn.
— Sidney
Monday, October 5, 2015
Sick Day
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