December 02, 2024
December 01, 2024
Quote of the moment
No one really looks at you except for your mother, your lover or your doctor.
--Simon Callow
Meta quote of the moment
Audiences are trained to view everything they watch not as art but as content, and content is meant to be chopped up into digestible little bits that others can consume while scrolling.
--Esther Zuckerman
November 30, 2024
Quote of the moment
The more exciting, transformative, and revolutionary a science result appears, especially coming out of nowhere, the more likely it is to be dead wrong.
--Paul Sutter
November 24, 2024
Choosing your friends quote of the moment
Well, to friends, but not to people.
--Cher
(When asked who she'd told a story about Phil Spector pulling a gun)
November 22, 2024
Climate strategy quote of the moment
The U.S. does not want to get into a table tennis game with China, because that game the U.S. cannot win.
--Li Shuo
November 20, 2024
Quote of the moment
In the realm of home cooking, there's nothing like the thrill of a win.
--Eric Kim
Quote of the moment
When someone tells you, 'it's not the money, it's the principles,' it's the money.
--Robin Feldman
Quote of the moment
There may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again.
--Donald Trump
November 17, 2024
Quote of the moment
I'm 50 percent sad and 50 percent happy all the time, at the same time.
--Billy Bob Thornton
Quote of the moment
The happy man is someone who has a purpose, something to do each day. The value of money is about how you spend it, not what you make or how much you have.
--Im Chae-moo
November 16, 2024
Awkward lede of the moment
Malört is, in one word, unforgiving. Made from neutral spirits, wormwood and sugar, it tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires. It is also kind of good.
--Charlie Kolodziej
November 15, 2024
Quote of the moment
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
--Albert Einstein
November 14, 2024
November 12, 2024
Article lede of the moment
A product of our era of legacy sequels and zombified intellectual properties, Ridley Scott's Gladiator II sets out to one-up its fondly remembered predecessor with more grandiose set pieces, more convoluted political intrigues, and twice as many creepy, pasty emperors.
--Ignatiy Vishnevetsky