PHIL FACE

"Two ways to fold a towel, my way and the wrong way. Let’s do it right."

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:32:19 -0400

““Two ways to fold a towel, my way and the wrong way. Let’s do it right.””

- Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:56:22 -0400

“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.”

- Jack Nicholson

"And Shepherds we shall be. For thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy..."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:45:29 -0500

“And Shepherds we shall be.
For thee, my Lord, for thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand,
That our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.
So we shall flow a river forth to thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
In Nomini Patri, Et Fili, Et Spiritu Sancti.
Amen.”

- Boondock Saints

"Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:24:44 -0500

“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: “Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?”
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”

- Salvador Dali

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:00:00 -0500

““Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.””

- Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via insearchofthemoon) (via booklover) (via emilymaye)

"I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can’t help..."

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:51:54 -0500

“I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can’t help but compare yourself against the old timers. Can’t help but wonder how they would’ve operated these times. There was this boy I sent to Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn’t any passion to it. Told me that he’d been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he’d do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. Be there in about fifteen minutes. I don’t know what to make of that. I surely don’t.”

- Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), No Country For Old Men (Film)

"I like the idea. I like clearing my arm from the folds of the garment to look at my watch. The..."

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:42:58 -0500

“I like the idea. I like clearing my arm from the folds of the garment to look at my watch. The simple act of checking the time is transformed by this flourish. Decorative gestures add romance to a life. Idling students may see time itself as a complex embellishment, a romance of human consciousness, as they witness the chairman walking across campus, crook’d arm emerging from his medieval robe, the digital watch blinking in the late summer dusk. The robe is black of course, and goes with almost anything.”

- White Noise, Don DeLillo

"Let me ask you something: if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:32:22 -0500

“Let me ask you something: if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”

- Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), No Country For Old Men (Film)

"I only take a drink on two occasions: when I’m thirsty and when I’m not."

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:02:33 -0500

“I only take a drink on two occasions: when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.”

- Brendan Behan, Irish dramatist, poet, and novelist

"What’s that smell?"

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:52:51 -0500

“What’s that smell?”

- Tyler Durden

Vanity

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:51:49 -0500

Bill Bowerman: Know what your problem is, Pre? Vanity!
Steve Prefontaine: Vanity?
Bill Bowerman: Yes, vanity, Pre! Your belief that you have no talent is the ultimate vanity. If you have no talent then you have no limits, it's all an act of will. Your heart can probably pump more blood than anyone else's on earth, and that takes talent. The bones in your feet are so strong, it'd take a sledgehammer to break 'em. Be thankful for your limits, Pre, they're about as limitless as they get in this life.

"I don’t want to win unless I know I’ve done my best, and the only way I know how to do..."

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:48:24 -0500

“I don’t want to win unless I know I’ve done my best, and the only way I know how to do that is to run out front, flat out until I have nothing left. Winning any other way is chicken-shit.”

- Steve Prefontaine

"Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:36:18 -0400

“Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.”

- Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius

"I have a cheese shredder at home, that’s a positive name for a cheese shredder. They..."

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:22:57 -0400

“I have a cheese shredder at home, that’s a positive name for a cheese shredder. They don’t call it by its negative name, cause no one would buy it: sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, and now I have little bits of sponge… that would melt easily over tortilla chips.”

- Mitch Hedberg

"The takeaway: what we do is often a function of how we do it. That’s what institutional..."

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:00 -0400

“The takeaway: what we do is often a function of how we do it. That’s what institutional economics is really about. It’s awesomely fitting that a Nobel for studying it went to someone who did it: someone who challenged not just the “what” but also the “how.” It’s often easy to challenge the what. Yet, challenging the how is where deep change begins.”

- Umair Haque, Elinor Ostrom and the Future of Economics

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:21:23 -0400

“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

- Benjamin Franklin

"Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:51:50 -0400

“Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.”

- Mao Zedong

"If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you are not hungry."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:49:07 -0400

“If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you are not hungry.”

- Emma Fogt

"Humbled"

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:44:53 -0400

“Humbled”

- Barack Obama, Twitter post upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

"Here’s to me and here’s to you, And here’s to love and laughter. I’ll be true as long as you, And..."

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:53:42 -0400

“Here’s to me and here’s to you,
And here’s to love and laughter.
I’ll be true as long as you,
And not one moment after.”

- Traditional Irish Toast