January 2012
5 posts
“My old music ethnography teacher back in college once told our class a great...”
– J. Jacques via QC #1986
“If there are seven in the vase and one dies, I take it out and throw it away so...”
– Ali via the Moodscope Blog
“One day, my brother and I were in the machine shed when we heard a rattlesnake...”
– Carol Bartz, former Yahoo! CEO via Esquire
“So I go online and see Einstein. They had a whole film about him. It was...”
– George Clooney in Esquire
December 2011
5 posts
“There is also a love scene, which is shown not merely from the waist up but from...”
– Roger Ebert in his review of ATLAS SHRUGGED. It made me giggle.
“I never viewed money as being “my money” I always saw it as...”
– Louis C.K. on giving away the majority of his first million via his website
“My cousin got taped to the bottom of a table once. Our parents were not happy,...”
– Crochetniac in the comments of a Reddit post
“A child today grows up in a never forgotten house.”
– The Never Forgotten House by Joanne McNeil, on nostalgia, documentation, memory, and space. (via viafrank)
October 2011
4 posts
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t...”
– Alice Walker via Miss Representation (2011)
“for a long time I thought my biggest heist was fooling everyone into believing...”
– Miranda July (via bitdepth)
“The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and...”
– Martin Scorsese (via bitdepth)
September 2011
5 posts
“There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American...”
– Barbara Jordan in her keynote address to the DNC, 1976
“Let me see—by your applause—who here wrote a thesis? That’s nice. A lot of hard...”
– Conan O’Brien’s Speech to the Harvard Class of 2000
“Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“You’re a rotten driver,” I protested. “Either you ought to be...”
– Nick and Jordan in THE GREAT GATSBY
August 2011
5 posts
3 tags
“I started many, many years ago. It was difficult. We used to actually turn the...”
– Joao Silva in the NYT
“People always assume that this heartless photographer just walked past and shot...”
– Photographer Joao Silva on Kevin Carter via NYT
“The Army was the best thing for me as far as my art work went because I didn’t...”
– Shel Silverstein’s Stars and Stripes interview, 1968 (via @longreads)
“In the beginning with an art form, you progress about 100 percent every day...”
– Shel Silverstein’s Stars and Stripes interview, 1968 (via @longreads)
July 2011
6 posts
“You’ll write a lot, and most of it will be bullshit. You need the bullshit if...”
– Finding Your Voice via zen habits
“I only meant that if you loved her you could’ve taught her anything....”
– Marilyn Monroe in THE MISFITS
“There’s nothing I’m ever doing that isn’t the most incredible thing on Earth. If...”
– via How to Be Happy Anytime on Zen Habits
“It’s too late to live in Venice.”
– Mary de Rachewiltz
“In Italy, you sit down to eat and you eat a meal. In Paris you sit down and what...”
– Isa Miranda in Summertime (1955)
June 2011
4 posts
“From the moment I first double-fisted a man-sized crosscut – five feet of...”
– Christopher McDougall, Esquire July 2005
“Black tie = bow tie, regardless of your politics. It would not be correct to say...”
– Nick Sullivan, via Esquire
“Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
May 2011
3 posts
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
“There is a larger question here. Does it make a movie “good” because...”
– Roger Ebert in his second review of Thor
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same...”
– Mignon McLaughlin via For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage
“12. If you find yourself swimming with all the other fish, go the other way....”
– 38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years
April 2011
6 posts
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008
Parents,
Am at an Internet cafe. Just wanted you to know that I made it to Sorrento okay. Twelve hours. Left the castle at 7am, bus to Meran, train to Bozen, train to Bolzano, train to Bologna, got on the wrong train and got kicked off in Florence, was either buy new tickets or hope for the best so we hoped for the best and got on a train to Naples which had a layover in Rome, then an hour...
“Don’t take a shortcut or walk familiar paths, go through the thick of the...”
– Aunt Marie
“The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly,...”
– John Gruber (via bitdepth)
“Throwing up is an opera. You can’t understand a word anyone’s saying...”
– Eddie Izzard, Live at Madison Square Garden
“Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that, that is your...”
– Oprah, Master Class
March 2011
2 posts
“I need and want to see capable women. I don’t like to see them weep all the...”
– Debra Granik (via bitdepth)
February 2011
2 posts
“If you’re upset with how you look at twenty-five, life’s going to be...”
– Susan Sarandon via Oprah’s Oscar special
January 2011
5 posts
“What makes the Volt the Darling of Detroit is that it has been...”
– Gene Weingarten, “The shocking truth about the electric Volt”
“America’s entry into the Second World War presented the bridal industry...”
– from One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding