February 2012
“I’ve never seen magazine covers and music videos and been like ‘I need to look...”
– Adele
“Maybe Kanye’s matured, or maybe he’s just embraced the fact that...”
– Kanye West Actually Should Throw a Fit at the Grammys This Year - Jack Hamilton - Entertainment - The Atlantic
“Remember that Gluttony (the Passion of the Seven) has to do with more than food...”
– EnneaGram Thought for the Day
o.O I might resemble this remark a little too closely some days. —misterjt
January 2012
“I was keen to include the period of time when they were trying to decide whether...”
– Lionel Shriver, author of ’We Need to Talk About Kevin’, Wonders Why Anyone Has Kids
“I’m going to make a raw political statement here. A guy like Romney is a good...”
– Vice President Joe Biden talks Mitt Romney and the Republican way of thinking. (via kileyrae)
“A girl’s best friend is her mutter.”
– Dorothy Parker
“The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘check...”
– Dorothy Parker
“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or...”
– Michelle Alexander, on the number of blacks in the criminal justice system. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander details how President Reagan’s war on drugs led to a mass incarceration of black males and the difficulties these felons face after serving their prison sentences. (via nprfreshair)
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live...”
– James A. Baldwin (via quelowat)
“If you’re not changing, you’re giving others a chance to catch up.”
– Pete Cashmore in This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business | Fast Company
“These guys, they travel around the world. They’re more cultured than we...”
– Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich on International Players in the NBA | StarTribune.com
“I obviously like a lot of what Ron Paul says on the drug war, on wars period, on...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and...”
– Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter, in an email — from an article by the New York Times’ David Carr about the dangers of SOPA (via AllThingsD)