There is always a brave new world. But only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.
I apply for a new job twice a week, every week. I am applying for the position of millionaire but so far my numbers haven't come up.
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.
She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...
I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.
Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.” Thorkild aka ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup
Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.
Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.
Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.
During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
The faster you search for a new partner, the faster you will get over your break-up blues…. Love is nothing more than an illusion.
When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you've forgotten.
