Quotes of the day, April 3
Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.
Mojo Nixon
March 21
He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.
Catherine Fisher
March 20
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
Carolyn Heilbrun
March 19
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
Carrie Brownstein
March 18
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.
Carroll Quigley
March 17
Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.
Rebecca Stead