Phrasebook

"The problems arise from the isolation of the eye outside its natural interaction with other sense..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:49 -0400

“The problems arise from the isolation of the eye outside its natural interaction with other sense modalities, and from the elimination and suppression of other senses, which increasingly reduce and restrict the experience of the world into the sphere of vision. This separation and reduction fragments the innate complexity, comprehensiveness and plasticity of the perceptual system, reinforcing a sense of detachment and alienation.”

- Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

"Sandberg describes waddling into the Google headquarters when she was heavily pregnant and demanding..."

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:45:25 -0400

“Sandberg describes waddling into the Google headquarters when she was heavily pregnant and demanding a special parking spot for pregnant workers. But nowhere does she describe using her position of power to help mothers — or fathers — get more flexible or reduced schedules.”

- Sheryl Sandberg’s Biggest Blind Spot | Cognoscenti

"In the center of Chicago a golden pond of honey formed, which trickled along the streets, over..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:13:39 -0500

“In the center of Chicago a golden pond of honey formed, which trickled along the streets, over squares, and dripped into the drains, absorbing every imaginable scent and substance that crossed its path. Those in search of unusual sensations tried spreading it on bread and found that the world and time itself turned as golden, viscous and sweet as honey.”

- Andri Snaer Magnason, “LoveStar”

"Never forget this was a lockout. Never forget this was put upon you and the players and the sport by..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:38:17 -0500

“Never forget this was a lockout. Never forget this was put upon you and the players and the sport by the owners. Never forget the two biggest engines in all this weren’t poor, put-upon teams in tough markets, but rather financial giants whose sole motivation was greed and the desire to squeeze just an extra dime or two out of every dollar spent.”

- You can forgive NHL for lockout, but never forget what happened here (What We Learned) | Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports

"The healing from the pain is in the pain. -Rumi"

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:15:45 -0500

“The healing from the pain is in the pain. -Rumi”

- DSM5 and Ethical Relativism — drjoanne.blogspot.com — Readability

"To prepare for eventual evolution of humans into pinniped sea mammalians, I continue to walk in the..."

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:37:19 -0500

“To prepare for eventual evolution of humans into pinniped sea mammalians, I continue to walk in the rain every chance I get.”

- Sesshu Foster / http://www.blogcitylights.com/2012/02/24/ben-ehrenreich-talks-to-sesshu-foster/

"Somewhere underneath the hull of Armando Tovar’s boat, the aquatic manifestation of the great..."

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:09:06 -0400

“Somewhere underneath the hull of Armando Tovar’s boat, the aquatic manifestation of the great god Xolotl was slithering along the muddy canal bottom, digesting bugs, laying eggs and trying to avoid extinction.”

- In Mexico, the ajolote’s fate lies in troubled waters - latimes.com

"She lived her life under near-constant surveillance and was continually stressed by interactions..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:10:15 -0500

“She lived her life under near-constant surveillance and was continually stressed by interactions with the human world. She was tracked and logged as data, reflecting the way we have come to see the world around us through Tron and Matrix-like filters, qualifying and quantifying everything, rather than experiencing and interacting.”

- Tracking the grizzly bear in emotional interactive documentary

"ABSTRACT: A troubled girl lives in apartment in Greenwich Village. She is always losing things, and..."

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:04:15 -0500

“ABSTRACT: A troubled girl lives in apartment in Greenwich Village. She is always losing things, and she carries a flask of Scotch around in her handbag to help her through daily crises. Her daily life in the city is described through street scenes & subway scenes. She thinks about her stay on an island off the coast of Maine with her lover. The holiday wasn’t a success. She stops in at St. Patrick’s Cathedral & inadvertently finds herself telling a priest that it has been 15 years since her last confession. She goes on talking for a while & he tells her if she is in trouble she can come to the rectory next Wednesday & speak with him. She tells him she is frightened to death but he chooses not to hear. She leaves, and starts uptown for an appointment. She is in a doctor’s office lying on a table. Somebody cried, “Hey that hurts, it hurts.” Slurp, water whizzing in the basin. Will it travel down the sewers like an abandoned pet, eyeless, lost to the gene pool, never to breed? Doctor having left the room, his assistant matter-of-factly sprinkled water over what was in the basin, saying, “I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” “You are baptizing a newt”, she said reproachfully. In the next scene she is at a party.”

- Fiction: Day-Old Baby Rats : The New Yorker

"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree"

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:00:45 -0500

“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”

- W.S. Merwin

"And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil...."

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:25:31 -0400

“

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave ….

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

”

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"According to the Weekly World News, the discovery of Bat Boy’s family tree on a genealogy..."

Thu, 12 May 2011 13:43:15 -0400

“According to the Weekly World News, the discovery of Bat Boy’s family tree on a genealogy chart recently stunned evolutionary scientists who used to think the famed imp was a pitiful, one-of-a-kind mutant - but now believe he belongs to a race of creatures who have interacted with humans for at least 400 years. In the tabloid’s account, the chart itself was written on vellum and found in the same Ozark Mountains cave where Dr. Ron Dillon, a biologist, rescued Bat Boy after he was trapped by a falling rock in 1992 (it should be noted, however, that the Ozark Mountains are nowhere near West Virginia).”

- Bat Boy (character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:22:49 -0400

“There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

"When was that? In the previous life. Well, yes, these things happened. But we forgot about it. We..."

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:59:23 -0500

“When was that? In the previous life. Well, yes, these things happened. But we forgot about it. We have been working on our mistakes. But trust me, those were great games. Fans were excited! Unfortunately, not our fans.”

- Pavel Datsyuk

"We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the..."

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:05:55 -0500

“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”

- MLK, via Take As Directed

"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to..."

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:57:00 -0500

“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.”

- George Orwell, “Looking Back On The Spanish War”

"… at a time when people in America are desperate and you’re raking in the bucks..."

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:42:39 -0500

“… at a time when people in America are desperate and you’re raking in the bucks promoting some sleazy Free Credit Score dot-com, maybe you shouldn’t be asking us for sympathy. Instead, you should be down on your knees thanking God and/or Ronald Reagan that you were lucky enough to be born in a country where a useless schmuck who contributes absolutely nothing to society can somehow manage to find himself in the top marginal tax bracket.”

- Bill Maher: New Rule: Rich People Who Complain About Being Vilified Should Be Vilified

"Like many a nerd before him, Zuckerberg is too hyped on the idea that he’s in heaven to notice he’s..."

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:25:15 -0500

“Like many a nerd before him, Zuckerberg is too hyped on the idea that he’s in heaven to notice he’s in hell.”

- Generation Why? by Zadie Smith

"In the 1990s, Ted told young patients, “Dr. Farber told me that someday we’d be able to cure you..."

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:35:06 -0400

“In the 1990s, Ted told young patients, “Dr. Farber told me that someday we’d be able to cure you kids, and that’s what we’re able to do now!’’ He also asked them if they could hit.”

- Dan Shaughnessy, “Splendid memories of a genuine giant”

"The mistake was to assume that everyone measuring everything would produce clarity."

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:14:26 -0400

“The mistake was to assume that everyone measuring everything would produce clarity.”

- Lucas Graves, “Traffic Jam”