Quotes of: Brave-new-world Keyword

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your fir...

Fourth Comings

All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make m...

Nancy Gibbs

If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream.

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own di...

The News: A User's Manual

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilli...

New Bottles For New Wine

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists want...

Michael Bloomberg

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes....

Tom Ford

Bill: You. Whatever your name is... what is your name? Amsterdam Vallon: Amsterdam, sir. Bill: Amsterdam... I'm New York... don't you never come in here empty handed again, you gotta pay for the pleasure of my company.

Gangs of New York

Aunt Edna: Did you tell Clark and Ellen the good news? Catherine: [nervously] Uh, no; I was just about to. Ellen Griswold: Good news, what good news, Catherine? Aunt Edna: You're driving me to Phoenix! [Clark begins choking on his hamburger]

National Lampoon's Vacation

I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion ...

Tessa Thompson

Death is always news.

African

New York is our home.

Christo

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

Carroll Shelby

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around the subways in my little bunhead and thinking I was so cool.

Teri Polo

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

My Name is Red

Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City...

The Little Silkworm

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

Motherless Brooklyn

New insights from being present are a gift.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

'Law & Order' was so very interesting to me because what I got to do was explore New York along with getting to work with some of the best actors New York City had to offer.

Jesse L. Martin