July 31, 2023

Quote of the moment

Dry bones can harm no one.

--TS Eliot

Quote of the moment

What you get married for if you don't want children?

--TS Eliot

Quote of the moment

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

--TS Eliot

Correcting vibe quote of the moment

Barbie has helped me graduate out of a cycle of overextending myself into spaces or around people I don't truly resonate with, to get myself back to discovering what I want out of life.

--Theresa Arzate

Pithy quote of the moment

'Big farmer' has changed our digestive capabilities… and that's just one of the reasons why you can't eat like a caveman.

--Giles Yeo

July 30, 2023

Quote of the moment

No man is a prophet in his own tongue, eh?

--HS Thompson

Quote of the moment

'Authenticity' is not about just being unrestrained and doing whatever we want to do.

--Andy Puddicombe 

I'm not sure I want the SECOND look...

... screenshot of the moment.

(CNET.com news feed teaser)

Quote of the moment

You know, at the inner table of human knowing we all have an empiricist, a logician, an intuitive, a mystic, and a skeptic.

--Rachel Martin

July 29, 2023

Uncertainty quote of the moment

"The condition of the customer and his beer are unclear but both were believed to be free of serious injury."

--"Master Blaster"

July 28, 2023

Quote of the moment

Whatever you do, and wherever you go, take weapons.

--HS Thompson
Brazil
1963

Quote of the moment

Either I am going mad or there is a definite conspiracy afoot in the world; a conspiracy of fatness and  blindness...backed up by a sinister mindless kind of reasoning that is only necessary to justify what is already a fact, and will always be a fact.

--HS Thompson 
Columbia
1962

July 27, 2023

Headline for people who Just Don't Get It of the moment

What's a Plant-Based Diet? Here's What You Need to Know to Eat Less Meat.

--NYT

Quote of the moment

I think all the 'good Americans' died in a riot somewhere.

--HS Thompson
1962

Quote of the moment

It is an odd situation when the best that can happen to a man is arrive in Colombia with $5.

--H Thompson

July 26, 2023

Distilled truth quote of the moment

You can't go on the internet and watch videos on how to live off the grid, and then actually do it, if you have no experience. You just can't do that.

--Trevala Jara

July 25, 2023

Quote of the moment

The beast is loose, and prowling everywhere.

--H Thompson

Quote of the moment

Something huge is pressing on my soul.

--Hunter Thompson

Quote of the moment

I am in New York, the homeland of the uprooted.

--HS Thompson
1962

Quote of the moment

As long there's a sense waiting, there's a sense of expectation. As long as there's a sense of expectation, then what we're doing is not being really fully present in the moment.

--Andy Puddicombe 

Quote of the moment

The lottery is mostly a tax on people who don't know math.

--Bill Nye

July 24, 2023

Ominous presidential chef sentence of the moment

This is not the first time a chef for a former American president has died in a sudden manner. 

--Remy Tumin

Quote of the moment

It's great to have a pocket full of diamonds.

--Bryan Sobolewski

July 22, 2023

Quote of the moment

It's more likely that The Church is not a place, but a practice. The practice becomes a place.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

The best albums are often the hardest to complete.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

You're never more alive than when you nearly weren't.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

Fatherhood is taught at home, not school.

--Bono

No of the moment

In a word: no. In slightly more words: Jesus Christ no, absolutely not, what a terrible, terrible idea this is. Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don't do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it's that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I'm talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother's funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn't exactly ideal.

--Stuart Heritage

July 21, 2023

Quote of the moment

Sometimes you have to get away to come home.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

Poverty has its stench.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

What's the point of a conversation with someone who has already made up their mind?

--Bono

Partial quote of the moment

"...when Hellboy enters the chat, you know it's not going to end gently."

--Angela Watercutter

July 20, 2023

'A: "Bread and cheese"' headline of the moment

"What does a Burger King Whopper with nothing but 20 slices of cheese taste like?"

Quote of the moment

I don't have a 'rest of my life,' I don't want one. I just have this one.

Quote of the moment

Maybe there are some arguments that, just by being in them, you've already lost.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

Capitalism is not immoral, but amoral.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

If the acronyms make us feel less than smart, then the people who come up with them are not smart enough.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

Climate change, like conflict, is development in reverse.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

--Bono

Demographic of the moment

More Africans (650,000,000) have mobile phones than Americans or Europeans.

Quote of the moment

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

--Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Quote of the moment

Some things you believe...
... And some things you know.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

Nelson Mandela could not cry. It moves me still.

--Bono

July 18, 2023

Quote of the moment

We would never use a crime as a fundraiser.

--Bob Copus

July 17, 2023

Partial quote of the moment

...you need to feel reasonably good about yourself before you can be kind.

--John McEnroe

Life path reflection of the moment

It kind of went in the wrong direction to happiness.

--Tatum O'Neal

July 16, 2023

Quote of the moment

Saying 'no' to change is a sad kind of stasis.

--Bono

July 13, 2023

African proverb of the moment

If you want to cut a man's hair, be sure he's in the room.

--Senegal

Quote of the moment

To draw someone's face, you really get to know them.

--Bono

Quote of the moment

The change in someone else's life will totally transform yours.

--Bono

Snippet of the moment

... They wash their feet in soda water...

--TS Eliot

Couplet of the moment

...fragile ambiguities...

--Kai Bird

(Toward the end of American Prometheus -- describing a review of a commencement speech by Oppie post review board questioning)

July 12, 2023

Simple size explanation quote of the moment

How long is 19 feet? It's about the average height of an adult giraffe.

--Chad Gillis

(Cleverly explaining length with height measurements)

July 11, 2023

Narrowing the definition of 'popular' quote of the moment

Mega-popular German grocery chain, once planned for Alabama, closing 5 stores

July 10, 2023

Awkwardly worded quote of the moment

Once inside, a disappointed Indiana Jones fan you will not be.

--Dan Daru

Datum of the moment

10% of people in the U.S. will have a kidney stone at some point in their lives

--National Kidney Foundation

July 09, 2023

Quote of the moment

Crushing OxyContin and snorting it is not colorful.

--Keith Humphreys

There's gotta be a downside quote of the moment

Many aging baby boomers have long histories with drugs, cannabis and alcohol. 

--Paula Span

July 06, 2023

Quote of the moment

Your brain keeps the score and your body is the scorecard.

--Lisa Feldman Barrett

Quote of the moment

Exile is an endless layover.

--Eric Snowden

Fact of the moment

From sheep to pigs to cows, domesticated animals have smaller relative brain sizes compared to their wild counterparts—a phenomenon known as the domestication effect.

--Max Planck Society

July 04, 2023

Quote of the moment

Microsoft is where consumer brands go to die.

--Om Malik

July 03, 2023

Datum of the moment

1 in 5 people in the US will have skin cancer in their lifetime.

--American Academy of Dermatology Association

July 02, 2023

Quote of the moment

Deep water diving in a pocket submarine is the only extreme activity accessible to anyone in good health, without training and regardless of age.

--Paul-Henri Nargeolet


July 01, 2023

Clarification quote of the moment

The term "gut health" has nothing to do with how many hot dogs you can put down at the neighborhood BBQ. 

--Sean Mitchell

Quote of the moment

Emasculated men, losing their power, will always find scapegoats.

--Bono