Quotes of the day, January 12
I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.
Carolyn Murphy
May 16
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
May 15
And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.
Astra Taylor
May 14
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
George Will
May 13
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
William Butler Yeats
May 12
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
Victor Hugo
