Quotes of: New-books Keyword

The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax.

The Bridge

(My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.)

Bossypants

Life is about putting on hats. You have to know which ones you wear best.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

The world is a beautiful place, you just don't see it all the time.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Bright Young Things

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Brave New World

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Brave New World

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

Brave New World

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

Brave New World

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Brave New World

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Brave New World

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Chronicles, Vol. 1

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

David Sanborn

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

Moby

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

Alexis Bledel

My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at a...

Bryan Batt

I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real c...

Gaby Hoffmann

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

Kim Gordon

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.

Marianne Williamson

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

Harold Brodkey

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

Marketa Irglova