Quotes of: New-yorker Keyword

New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Feynman called it 'the expanding frontier of ignorance'.

Snow rising

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

Sister

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . . trump the need to preserve your credit score, or purchase a new gizmo.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

Ben wore the same goofy smile as in the photo. Take that, new guy! I can make him happy too!

Something Like Winter

With heightened senses it remained motionless and looked through bulbous eyes. It could taste fear in the air. Pheromones. Sweat. Food was near, but more importantly, so was its new home.

Symbiote

A new star, the Christ child, God's gift to mankind; these are what Christmas is made of.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

Third Grave Dead Ahead

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

The Titan's Curse

I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson

The Titan's Curse

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

The Tale of Hill Top Farm

Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.

The Orphan Sky

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

The Princess Bride

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Poke the Box

I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they didn't get wasted.

Pigeon English

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

Princess of Glass

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

So death lay in arrest. But at Bethlehem the bless'd Nothing greater could be heard Than a dry wind in the thorn, the cry of the One new-born, And cattle in stall as they stirred.

Poems

But the thought of New Zealand instantly sent her mind to Watson, the possibly-Australian, possibly-Kiwi, definitely paranormal young fellow with videos of dead guys on his phone.

Persephone's Orchard

And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.

The Poet Prince