“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.”
J.D. McClatchy
”My idea of a good picture is one that is in focus.”
💬Andy Warhol
”Never express yourself more clearly than you think”
💬 Niels Bohr.
”My considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac. Ulysses may, therefore, be admitted to the United States.”
💬 John M. Woolsey
“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.”
Earle Hitchner
“Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”
Leo Tolstoy
“I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
” It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate — you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.”
Julia Child (on Nouvelle Cuisine)
”Frequently on administrative forms, the options for marital status are single, married, and divorced. (How is ‘divorced’ a status? Isn’t that just single?)”
Scott Galloway
The media business keeps trying to ruin Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, and they keep prospering. On the loony Substack controversy, and the paradox of moral panic in media.
Matt Taibbi
