-
Viewing all posts tagged "quote"
-
”Sometimes they say on the ad at the theater, “…Cultural Commentator.” I’m like, “No, that’s a bad expectation to start to develop.” I guess it’s better than “blogger,” which is such an ugly word.
Andrew Bird (via catbird)
Andrew Bird gets major props from me for being on Righteous Babe Records back in the day and jammin with my all time favorite folkrock goddess Ani DiFranco. She’s released a pretty diverse group of artists, but I have loved (or at least reallllly liked) them all.
-
”An interest in the partnership which is owned directly or indirectly by or for another entity (corporation, partnership, estate, or trust) is considered to be owned proportionately by the owners (shareholder, partners, or beneficiaries) of the owning entity.
IRS
Instructions, Form 1065mmmmm …. Smells like tax season.
-
”
I expected substantive criticism from conservative pundits for my views, particularly my recent criticism of Ann Coulter. That is the nature of political discourse, and my intent was to generate discussion about the current problems facing the Republican Party. Unfortunately, even though Ingraham is more than 20 years older than I and has been a political pundit for longer, almost, than I have been alive, she responded in a form that was embarrassing to herself and to any woman listening to her radio program who was not a size 0.
In today’s society this is, unfortunately, predictable.
Meghan McCain, Responding to Laura Ingraham’s opinion that “the Valley Girl gone awry” shouldn’t be getting media attention because the public “doesn’t like plus size models” after Meghan’s relevant and insightful comments on the need for GOP reform.
-
”When I went to the conference, I had never used the computer. They asked me ‘Do you know the internet? Do you know Google?’ I said, ‘What kind of animal is Google?’ And then they say you can Google everything and say different things. I say ‘OK, let’s google windmill then.’ And then when I Googled windmill, I find that there are millions of applications. And then I say ‘Where was this Google all this time?’
William Kamkwamba, Malawian author of “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”, recalling a story about how he was invited to an African Innovation Conference after building at age 14 a windmill to power his village out of bicycle parts from looking at pictures in a book and reverse engineering it without any English translation. The next Google is coming from minds like these. (via spytap) (via lialia)
I found that exchange downright delightful.
-
”While it’s tempting to call them ‘baristi’ because of the Italian roots, the plural of ‘barista’ is ‘journalism majors.’
Fake AP Stylebook (via nerdshares via soupsoup)
Dude, I retweeted that 4 *hours* ago. Catch up, jeez…
-
”While I wouldn’t argue that cupcakes can single-handedly cause a neighbourhood to gentrify, I think it’s possible that they could contribute. The best agents for social change are virally popular and easily integrated into our daily lives - there’s no doubt that cupcakes fit that bill. You could create an investment fund that would back local cupcake entrepreneurs who wanted to set up shop in depressed neighbourhoods.
Gentrification by cupcake, BBC (via soupsoup)
You’re onto something here.
-
”What times are these
When to write a poem about love
Is almost a crime
Because it contains
So many silences
About so many horrors…After Bertolt Brecht
from Poetry as Insurgent Art
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
”The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Patrick Henry
(via nomosshere via southpol)
-
”No two oppressions are identical, but the fact remains that being oppressed in one circumstance does not render one incapable of being oppressive in another.
(via skirtonfire)
-
”Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan (via deadwritersvia followingmichaelaround)
-
”Sometimes the struggle to live in New York makes you think you’re actually living your life, but you’re actually only struggling to get from place to place. You say things like “I did two errands, and I got home!” Sometimes new york gets to you. Some days I win, some days New York wins.
Tina Fey
(via meredithbklyn)
-
”The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
(via heyamberrae)
Based on Postage by Greg Cooper. Everything heavily modified by me.
*Unlikely to find your lost post using this but you can try...
Comments