square root of 2

"Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals."
- T. E. Lawrence

"stone print"

- Marc Chagall, The Temple of Bacchus, lithograph

First day of parole

How to break the ice in an elevator, according to Ellen DeGeneres. 

ascension

"When you go up, you don't have a flight plan. You just go where the wind takes you."
- On fate

on babying millennials

"Everybody's picture can't go on the refrigerator."
- Deon Cole, who rejects 4th place prizes

Hockney at the MET

"Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make."
- David Hockney

It's one thing to be ignorant ...

" ... but if you're ignorant AND indignant, I'm going to be all up in your situation."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on including those who insist the earth is just 6000 years old

stay classy

body image

"I have to workout just to look fat."
- Will Ferrell

life of an artist

"Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego."
- Louie Anderson

the secret to longevity

"Tenacious thirst for revenge."
- a philosophy that brought justice to Adolf Eichmann  

you get what you give

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
- Winston Churchill

tuition

"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance."
- Axiom

on success

"Think like a millionaire; hustle like you're broke."
- Lori Gteiner

on aging

"You recognize cycles better. And you know you will survive."
- Willem Dafoe

greatest regret

"That I was too old to have affairs."
- Peggy Guggenheim

synchronicity

"Like hitting a bullet with a bullet."
- On the unlikely possibility of intercepting a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile, which travels at 11,000 mph

DUI

"Jail is designed to make you not want to go back there."
- Kiefer Sutherland

on martinis

"One is plenty, two is too much, three is not enough."
- James Thurber

on pony cars

"You can sell a young man's car to an old man, but you can't sell an old man's car to a young man."
- Auto adage

Voyageur

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

entrance requirement

"You must be uncomfortable in your own skin."
- August Strindberg on being an artist

inventory

"My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it."
- Peggy Guggenheim, where only 3% of her collection is exhibited at any one time

Thermal efficiency

Your dryer might not be broken. Have Patrick check your vent.

big brother

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
- George Orwell

on suboptimal relationships

Dominance. Control. Power. Ego.

"I'm proud to be maladjusted"

quality and quantity

"He wrote more words than Shakespeare and Dickens combined."
- On Winston Churchill, who was advised by Ernest Cassel to write to pay the bills

woe

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
- Elie Wiesel

serenity now

"If you worry a lot, fear not—your anxiety just might be a sign of high intelligence."

Full article here.

effervescent

“Champagne! In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

on innovation

" ... they didn't use hair pomade."

on figurative and literal death

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened."
- Axiom

why things usually don't change

" ... because someone is benefitting from the status quo."
- Barack Obama

on teamwork

"You need to have people around you who say that you don't have any clothes on."
- Michael Bloomberg

on poise

"I'm dry in the ocean, cool in fire."
- Axiom

dessert

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
- Carl Sagan

Brave New World

“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

- Aldous Huxley

"If you just keep moving ...

... sadness can't catch you."
- Theodore Roosevelt on the "Strenuous Life."

on people who congratulate themselves

"Art is intensely competitive."
- Robert Duvall

"antidote for self-loathing"

- Gary Oldman on acting

on gratitude

"That I haven't been found out."
- Liam Neeson and Sir Anthony Hopkins on their shared persisting feelings of the fraudulence of their professional aptitudes.  

quill

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

- Joan Didion

on fair chance

"Disability doesn't mean lack of ability."

Pol Roger

His good friend, Lord Birkenhead, once said of him, “Winston is a man of simple tastes, he is always prepared to put up with the best of everything.”

- Source here.

18th century branding

"Happy is he who escapes me."
- Blunderbuss

Tallest mountain under the ocean

The peak of Mauna Kea is 13,803 feet (4,207 m) above mean sea level but 33,476 feet (10,203 m) above its base on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It is the world's tallest mountain by this measure, taller than Mount Everest 29,029 feet (8,848 m) which is the highest mountain above sea level.

You're Fucked

won't fill the hole

"Thank God I didn't fuck over anyone for this."

- A 27 year old Matt Damon on winning the "Good Will Hunting" Oscar

revert to basic selves

"Everyone's got a plan until they're punched in the face."
- Axiom

ceaseless motion

"Marine limestone."
- Stephen Jay Gould on Mount Everest where the bottom became the top.

the clock has run out

America Ferrera speaks about the legal fund established to protect both women and men against sexual harassment, here.

chief strength

"We can live in the Arctic as well as the Amazon - we adapt."
- Chris Hayes

on objectivism

"Reality is a cloud of possibility, but people want to make a point."
- The Undoing Project