Date: 1777
"But the heart, that natural seat of evil propensities, that little troublesome empire of the passions, is led to what is right by slow motions and imperceptible degrees."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1854
"The woman of large capacity can seldom rise beyond the absorption of ideas; her physical conditions refuse to support the energy required for spontaneous activity; the voltaic-pile is not strong enough to produce crystallizations; phantasms of great ideas float through her mind, but she has not ...
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: January 11, 2014
"It's [concerning sleep loss] like the difference between a snowstorm's disrupting a single day of trash pickup and a prolonged strike. No longer quite as easy to fix, and even when the strike is over, there's likely to be some stray debris floating around for quite some time yet."
preview | full record— Konnikova, Maria (b. 1984)
Date: March 19, 2015
"When students are tackling a task like that, you can feel the whirr and hum of thought: it feels woven of reciprocity, willing, ambition, the impulse to translate fugitive thoughts into communication with others."
preview | full record— Warner, Marina (b. 1946)
Date: March 18, 2017
"So many secrets, so many plots, so many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for reality."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: July 27, 2017
"'My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players,' said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia."
preview | full record— Hoffman, Jan
Date: May 12, 2018
"Our brains are so scrambled that it's starting to make sense that none of it makes sense."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 21, 2019
"She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia