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®
Saturday, October 20, 2018
They both gave, I think that's the thing.
— Lily on "Fruit and Other Things" by Lenka Clayton and John Rubin, and "8th Street Water Cube" by Matthew Manzo, GBBN
Friday, October 19, 2018
This one has caught the imagination of the world, unfortunately.
— Trump via "In Shift on Khashoggi Killing, Trump Edges Closer to Acknowledging a Saudi Role," The New York Times
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Do you ever interupt a dentist when he's drilling?
— Bartender at Oscar Wilde while making a Cemetery Gates
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
We don't say "do you understand the Mozart"... we don't ask "do you understand a daiquiri."
— Jerry Saltz, Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
sarahsheehy1 Are u not famous
blakeokoons No
blakeokoons Sadly I am not
— Comments on @blakeokoons' photo from May 28
Monday, October 15, 2018
Which is to say that becoming the nation’s leading retailer does not guarantee immortality, at least not beyond architecture.
— The Editorial Board, "How Sears Was the Amazon of Its Day," The New York Times
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Can you imagine a pigeon floating like a duck? I would lose my mind.
— Lily
Saturday, October 13, 2018
"Nixon," Kissinger reports, "approved the recommendations while incongruously holding a bowling ball."
— Walter Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography
Friday, October 12, 2018
Do you think they thought it was good?
— Jason on some "bad" design from the '90s I think is "good"
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Found a patron.
— Walter Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Something between an epitome and a parody.
— Walter Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
In politics as in porn, everything now has to be kinda keyword searchable. So everybody has to fall into some sort of niche and if you're not doing it yourself then someone else is going to do it for you.
— Jon Ronson, "Joe Rogan Experience #995 - Jon Ronson"
Monday, October 8, 2018
There's no value to reaching across the aisle. There is no currency for that, there is no incentive.
— Jeff Flake, 60 Minutes
Sunday, October 7, 2018
Skittish fish asking a genie for a wish.
— Phrase from dinner party game "poop smoothie"
Saturday, October 6, 2018
“The tactics that were used completely backfired,” said Mr. McConnell. “Harassing members at their homes, crowding the halls with people acting horribly, the effort to humiliate us really helped me unify my conference.
— Peter Baker and Nicholas Fandos, "Show How You Feel, Kavanaugh Was Told, and a Nomination Was Saved," The New York Times
Friday, October 5, 2018
The Club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", which implies that outside concerns and business deals (networking) are to be left outside.
— "Bohemian Grove," Wikipedia
