The degree of wonderfulness: The ratio of how wonderful something was to how wonderful it might have been.
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
675. One purpose of theory is to obscure facts.
Trevor Martens, A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.
We cannot examine our intellect, because it is what we have. It is our means of examining.
Jack Blassing, The Kinetics of Architecture.
The quality of text is plummeting. Before our very eyes. We are living in that day.
Travis Hilliard, Pattern Identification.
Overheard through a door: “Can’t you appreciate that I am an art writer!? And that I am quite busy?”
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
Our progress occurs in discrete episodes. And this is so much better than a single big nightmarish wave.
Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.
—What has life in the twenty-first century taught you, Einar? If anything.
—That lies become truth, simply through repetition.
Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.
The boredom of the truly rich is infinitely more interesting than our own.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
In order to remember, we first must wait. Waiting is required.
Maynard Bittle, Order in Magnitude.
When I am told that so-and-so has great ideas concerning some important matter, I will sometimes resolve to look into it (i.e., read the book, watch the video, whatever). But first, I make an effort to prepare myself for the horror that is sure to come.
Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.
