May 2013
4 posts
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
– Mary Oliver
1 tag
Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it.
– Walter Benjamin
But everything matters. Everything is our lives is who we are.
– Penelope Trunk
April 2013
4 posts
Friendship and romance are the realm of anarchy.
– Cary Tennis
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So...
– Proverbs 6:10-11
Zonka taught me his newspaper code, which he liked to express as, ‘When...
– Roger Ebert
Building a wedding — the bridal party, the families, the guests, the minister,...
– Anne Lamott
March 2013
14 posts
There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a...
– Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
Cara’s rapist struck every person who ever loved her. Then he hurt every person...
– Christa Parravani
The leopard meets the tortoise on a lonely stretch of road. The leopard has been...
– Chinua Achebe
I hate being alone. I hate the unfamiliar. I want burgers, fries and beer. And I...
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
I’m not just hiring the person sitting there; I’m hiring the four people who...
– Ilene Gordon.
Gov. Milton J. Shapp appointed Judge Marutani a Common Pleas Court judge in...
– The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2004
She left behind the note. She did not leave behind her son.
– “Mother Called Her Final Act ‘Evil.’” NYTimes.
Women, they found, once had been quite physically active around the house,...
– Women and Housework.
Forty percent of the food Americans buy finds its way into the trash.
– Living With Less. A Lot Less. Graham Hill, NYTimes
Brevity is a by-product of vigor.
– “The Elements of Style” by Strunk & White
In modern America we believe racism to be the property of the uniquely...
– TA-NEHISI COATES
February 2013
4 posts
Attention is the only currency we have in this world.
– Some yoga teacher somewhere
No matter how much you want this job, there are 652 other people who want it,...
– Eric Auld. Thought Catalog.
Lot's Wife
They say I looked back out of curiosity. But I could have had other reasons. I looked back mourning my silver bowl. Carelessly, while tying my sandal strap. So I wouldn’t have to keep staring at the righteous nape of my husband Lot’s neck. From the sudden conviction that if I dropped dead he wouldn’t so much as hesitate. … I looked back in desolation. In shame because we...
At the end of the nineteenth century, the illegal immigration problem in America...
– Professor Jerry Kang
January 2013
10 posts
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence,...
– Cheryl Sandberg, “Lean In”
Happily married couples average five positive verbal and emotional expressions...
– Sonja Lyubomirsky
Looking at the early numbers, we see that the entrepreneurs who report being...
– E. Jean
Less common but vastly more effective is the cognitive approach that Professor...
– Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield, NYTimes
Remember, there’s no such thing as a saint.
– “Women suffer from Gandhi’s legacy” Michael Connellan
The work of the world is common as mud.
– Marge Piercy
We are willing to pursue any vile task as long as it allows us to avoid...
– “Positive Procrastination Not an Oxymoron” New York Times, January 15, 2012
We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not...
– Joan Didion “The Year of Magical Thinking”
December 2012
15 posts
You don’t have to wait for somebody to give you a job to start making something...
– Ira Glass
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they...
– W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Girls would be happier if they got over the fear of things, she says.
– Gothamist
The resources of English are finite and the quest for an apt word costly.
– Judge Willams, DC Circuit, 1989 (speaking of trademark names)
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning,...
– Matthew 2:18
I don’t want any of them here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to...
– Commanding general’s testimony before the House Naval Affair Subcommittee
If changing judges changes laws, it is not even clear what law is.
– Judge Richard Posner
The heart of the lawyer’s craft is storytelling. Lawyers listen to the stories...
– Howard J. Vogel
In death, on her bathroom floor, Dr. Chang’s face looked as if she were napping...
– Fallen Dean’s Life, Contradictory to Its Grisly End, NY Times
We must do things in a lively fashion, not in a lifeless fashion.
There are...
– Mao Zedong, 1964
This case presents the question of whether a farm insurance policy for bodily...
– Great Am. Assur. Co. v. Elliott, 846 F. Supp. 2d 1258, 1260 (M.D. Fla. 2012)
Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot