Quote of the moment

We only calm the mind so we can see more clearly. 

--Andy Puddicombe

Quote of the moment

I don't want some person who bullied me in grade school getting word of [my prostate cancer] and starting a prayer chain on Facebook for me.

--Brian Cahill

Quote of the moment

I think you shouldn't be caught up on your climbing progression. It's like you're not going to get a medal based on your grade. Do your best. Have fun. Have a good time with your friends... And see where you get.

--Alex Honnold 

Quote of the moment

We're really most alive when we're silent.

--Pico Iyer

Quote of the moment

It's hard to doubt what hasn't been said. 

--Pico Iyer

Conundrum of the moment

WHY is this box trapezoidal?

Sub headline of the moment

Beloved places to dine out are portals to past versions of ourselves.

--NYT

Quote of the moment

We don't have to control everything... It's okay. 

--Brian Klaas

Quote of the moment

You are the contingent culmination of the entirety of cosmic history. 

--Brian Klaas 

Quote of the moment

Theories don't come with an expiration date. 

--Brian Klaas 

Quote of the moment

If you torture data long enough, it will confess. 

--Ronald Koss

Quote of the moment

If necessity is the mother of invention, then timing is the mother of contingency. 

--Brian Klaas

Quote of the moment

Reality doesn't have a 'narrative arch.'

--Brian Klaas

Quote of the moment

Our beliefs are not a side-show. 

--Brian Klaas

Quote of the moment

Nothing says, "American Dream," like selling your car to sell hotdogs on a sidewalk. 

--Weird History of Food

TXTd poetry of the moment

The yard is a pile of gravel next to snaking trenches

--The Accomplice

Quote of the moment

We are the surviving barbs of a chain-linked past. 

--Brian Klaas

Quote of the moment

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man? 

--Mary Shelley

Legal clarity quote of the moment

There is a through line connecting your misconduct. From time to time your actions suggest that you believe that ordinary rules don't apply to you.

[my emphasis]

--Judge Paul A. Engelmayer

to rapper Daniel Hernandez

Imponderable of the moment

How can there be value in anything if the value of everything is nothing?

--Annemarie Conte